Pteriidae

Short description: Family of molluscs

Feather oysters

A live individual of Pteria hirundo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Bivalvia
Order:  | Pteriida
Superfamily:  | Pterioidea
Family:  | Pteriidae
Gray, 1847
Genera

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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.[1]

Some of the species in this family are important economically as the source of saltwater pearls.

## Genera

Genera in the family Pteriidae include:

* Crenatula Lamarck, 1803
* Electroma Stoliczka, 1871
* Pinctada Röding, 1798
* Pteria Scopoli, 1777 \- winged oysters
* Vulsella Röding, 1798

## References

1. ↑ Pteriidae Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.

* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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