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Margaritifera
Sign in to saveMargaritifera is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Margaritiferidae, the freshwater pearl mussels.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderUnionida
- FamilyMargaritiferidae
Perlorodka (Margaritifera) je rod sladkovodních mlžů z čeledi perlorodkovití. Obývají chladné potoky s nízkým obsahem živin.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 83
- With media
- 37
- Family
- Margaritiferidae
- Collections
- USNM, CMN, CAS, YPM, OSUM, OMNH
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Lebanon, Australia
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- Parent taxon
- Margaritiferidae
- Image
- Margaritifera margaritifera-buiten.jpg
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Margaritifera is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Margaritiferidae, the freshwater pearl mussels.
==Species== Species within the genus Margaritifera include: Margaritifera auricularia or Pseudunio auricularia Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838) Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Freshwater pearl mussel (includes Margaritifera margaritifera durrovensis Phillips, 1928) Margaritifera marrianae R. I. Johnson, 1983 The following fossil species are known from the mid-Cretaceous of Mongolia, being formerly classified in the genus Unio: †Margaritifera elongata (Martinson, 1982) †Margaritifera sainshandensis (Martinson, 1982) †Margaritifera glabra (Kolesnikov, 1956)
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