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Pteriidae
Sign in to savePteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater oysters. They are pearl oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Pteriida.
Species
wing oysters and pearl oysters
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderOstreida
- FamilyPteriidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded40,044
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,316
- With media
- 100
- Family
- Pteriidae
- Collections
- LACM, PRI, UF, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States, Thailand, Philippines, Fiji, New Caledonia, Mauritius, Seychelles, Indonesia
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Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater oysters. They are pearl oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Pteriida.
Some of the species in this family are important economically as the source of saltwater pearls.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pteriidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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