Margaritifera

Margaritifera is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Margaritiferidae, the freshwater pearl mussels.

Species
Species within the genus Margaritifera include: The following fossil species are known from the mid-Cretaceous of Mongolia, being formerly classified in the genus Unio:
 * 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


 * †Margaritifera elongata ( Martinson, 1982 )
 * †Margaritifera sainshandensis ( Martinson, 1982 )
 * †Margaritifera glabra ( Kolesnikov, 1956 )

References)

 * Starobogatov, Y. I. (1970). Fauna Molliuskov i Zoogeograficheskoe Raionirovanie Kontinental'nykh Vodoemov Zemnogo Shara [The Molluscan Fauna and Zoogeographical Zoning of the Continental Water Bodies of the World]. Nauka. Leningrad. 372 p., 12 tables.
 * Ma, Q.-H. (1996). Revision of Mesozoic Margaritiferidae in China and their development. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica. 35(4): 408-429.