🦋 Family

Margaritidae

6 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Trochida › Margaritidae

Margarites pupillus is a small marine sea snail found along the North American Pacific coast, associated with kelp habitats.

Margarites helicinus is a small marine gastropod with a distinctively shaped, shiny shell found across northern marine waters.

Pinctada mazatlanica is an eastern Pacific pearl oyster with iridescent nacre that lives on shallow reefs and rocky bottoms.

Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798 is an almost cosmopolitan bivalve species in the family Pteriidae.

Pinctada margaritifera, the black-lip pearl oyster, is a toofth-hinged bivalve that forms pearl beds across warm Indo-Pacific waters.

Pinctada radiata is a pearl oyster harvested for pearls, edible flesh and shell, native to the Indo-Pacific and introduced to the Mediterranean.

Related Families

Trochidae 61 species Turbinidae 36 species Tegulidae 16 species Calliostomatidae 11 species Phasianellidae 4 species Angariidae 1 species Colloniidae 1 species

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