Pterioidea
| Pterioidea | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pterioida |
| Superfamily: | Pterioidea Gray 1840 (1820) |
Pterioidea is a superfamily of epifaunal marine bivalves mostly inhabiting continental shelf regions of tropical and subtropical oceans. The superfamily includes the economically-important saltwater pearl oysters as well as the oddly shaped hammer oysters (neither of which, however, is considered a true oyster). A number of species have found use as model organisms in the fields of medicine and science. [1]
It includes the following three accepted families:
- Malleidae, the hammer oysters, Lamarck, 1818
- Pteriidae, the pearl oysters, tree oysters, and winged oysters, Gray, 1847 (1820)
- Pulvinitidae, a family of rare deep sea oysters, no common name, Stephenson, 1941
References
- ↑ Tëmkin, Ilya (2010). "Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (mollusca, bivalvia, pterioidea)". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10 (342): 1471–2148. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-342.
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