Margaritifera
Genus of bivalves
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Margaritifera is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Margaritiferidae, the freshwater pearl mussels.[1]
| Margaritifera Temporal range: Middle Cretaceous to present | |
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| Margaritifera margaritifera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Superfamily: | Unionoidea |
| Family: | Margaritiferidae |
| Genus: | Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Margaritifera fluviatilis Schumacher, 1815 | |
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Species
Species within the genus Margaritifera include:
- Margaritifera auricularia or Pseudunio auricularia
- Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)
- Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)
- Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Freshwater pearl mussel (includes Margaritifera margaritifera durrovensis Phillips, 1928)
- Margaritifera marrianae R. I. Johnson, 1983
The following fossil species are known from the mid-Cretaceous of Mongolia, being formerly classified in the genus Unio:[2]
- †Margaritifera elongata (Martinson, 1982)
- †Margaritifera sainshandensis (Martinson, 1982)
- †Margaritifera glabra (Kolesnikov, 1956)
