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Margaritiferidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
Henderson, J. (1929). Non-marine Mollusca of Oregon and Washington. The University of Colorado Studies, 17(2): 47–190. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=301813

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Mollusca
class
Bivalvia
order
Unionida
family
Margaritiferidae

Name

Synonyms
Cumberlandiidae
Margaritanidae
Homonyms
Margaritiferidae
Common names
jokihelmisimpukat in Finnish
elvemuslingar in Nynorsk, Norwegian
elvemuslinger in Norwegian Bokmål
flodpärlmusslor in Swedish
elveskjel in Nynorsk, Norwegian

Bibliographic References

  1. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Bieler, Rüdiger, Joseph G. Carter, and Eugene V. Coan, 2010: Classification of Bivalve Families, IN Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia, vol. 52, no. 2. 113-184.
  4. Graf, Daniel L., and Kevin S. Cummings, 2021: A 'big data' approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 87, no. 1. 1-36.
  5. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  6. Henderson, J. (1929). Non-marine Mollusca of Oregon and Washington. <em>The University of Colorado Studies.</em> 17(2): 47-190.
  7. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 495 Designation., under the Plenary Powers of a type species in harmony with accustomed usage for the nominal genus Unio Philipsson, 1788 (class Pelecypoda) and validation under the same Powers of the family-group name Margaritiferidae Haas, 1940.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 17(17), 287-322 (1957)
  8. InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org).
  9. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  10. Ponder, Winston Frank, David R. Lindberg, and Juliet Mary Ponder, 2020: null. Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, vol. 2. xx + 870.
  11. Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526.
  12. WoRMS Editorial Board (2016) WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species
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