Margaritifera
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| Margaritifera Temporal range: Middle Cretaceous to present | |
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| Margaritifera margaritifera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Superfamily: | Unionoidea |
| Family: | Margaritiferidae |
| Genus: | Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Margaritifera fluviatilis Schumacher, 1815 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Margaritifera is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Margaritiferidae, the freshwater pearl mussels.[1]