''Margaritifera'' is a

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freshwater mussel Freshwater bivalves are one kind of freshwater mollusc, along with freshwater snails. They are bivalves that live in fresh water as opposed to salt water, which is the main habitat type for bivalves. The majority of species of bivalve molluscs ...

s, aquatic

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s in the family

Margaritiferidae Margaritiferidae is a family of medium-sized freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the order Unionida. Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)licence. It is the m ...

, the freshwater

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mussels. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Margaritifera Schumacher, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571966 on 2021-06-22

Species

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within the genus ''Margaritifera'' include: * ''

Margaritifera auricularia ''Margaritifera auricularia'' is a species of European freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Margaritiferidae, the freshwater pearl mussels. Formerly found throughout western and central Europe, the species is now critic ...

'' or ''Pseudunio auricularia'' * '' Margaritifera falcata'' (

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, 1850) * '' Margaritifera hembeli'' (Conrad, 1838) * ''

Margaritifera margaritifera The freshwater pearl mussel (''Margaritifera margaritifera'') is an endangered species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Margaritiferidae. Although the name "freshwater pearl mussel" is often used for this species, ...

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) — Freshwater pearl mussel (includes '' Margaritifera margaritifera durrovensis'' Phillips, 1928) * '' Margaritifera marrianae'' R. I. Johnson, 1983 The following fossil species are known from the mid-

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, being formerly classified in the genus '' Unio'': * †'' Margaritifera elongata'' (Martinson, 1982) * †'' Margaritifera sainshandensis'' (Martinson, 1982) * †'' Margaritifera glabra'' (Kolesnikov, 1956)

References)

* Starobogatov, Y. I. (1970). Fauna Molliuskov i Zoogeograficheskoe Raionirovanie Kontinental'nykh Vodoemov Zemnogo Shara

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Nauka. Leningrad. 372 p., 12 tables. * Ma, Q.-H. (1996). Revision of Mesozoic Margaritiferidae in China and their development. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 35(4): 408-429.

External links

Schumacher, C. F. (1815). Afhandling over conchyliologiske systemer, og om nogle toskallede conchylier. Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger (Bulletin de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark). 1813-1815: 7

Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.

Fagot, P. (1890-1894). Histoire malacologique des Pyrénées Françaises et Espagnoles. Bulletin de la Société Ramond

Bolotov I.N., Vikhrev I.V., Bespalaya Y.V., Gofarov M.Y., Kondakov A.V., Konopleva E.S., Bolotov N.N. & Lyubas A.A. (2016). Multi-locus fossil-calibrated phylogeny, biogeography and a subgeneric revision of the Margaritiferidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 103: 104-121
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