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Pteria sterna
Pteria sterna with pearls
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pteriida
Family: Pteriidae
Genus: Pteria
Species:
P. sterna
Binomial name
Pteria sterna
(Gould, 1851)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Avicula fimbriata Dunker, 1852
  • Avicula eximia Reeve, 1857
  • Avicula libella Reeve, 1857
  • Avicula peruviana Reeve, 1857
  • Avicula sterna Gould, 1851
  • Avicula vivesi Rochebrune, 1895
  • Pteria beiliana Olsson, 1961
  • Pteria rositae Hertlein, 1928

Pteria sterna, or commonly known as the rainbow-lipped pearl oyster or the Pacific wing-oyster, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae, the pearl oysters. This oyster can be found in shallow water along the tropical and subtropical Pacific coast of America, its range including Baja California, Mexico and northern Peru.

  1. ^ a b Tëmkin, Ilya (2014). "Pteria sterna (Gould, 1851)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-02-14.

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