Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Palaeoheterodonta > Order Unionida > Superfamily Unionoidea > Family Margaritiferidae > Genus Margaritifera

Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Unio Philipsson, 1788

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Margaritifera*	Schumacher, 1816	accepted genus name
*Margaritana*	Schumacher, 1817	generic synonym

Species group names

*Unio sinuata*	Lamarck, 1819	subjective synonym
*Margaritifera sinuatus*	auct.	misapplied name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Spengler's Freshwater Mussel sources: english PESI focal point

German: Riesen-Flussperlmuschel sources: Germany PESI focal point

Lithuanian: ausytoji perluotė

Spanish, Castillian: Almeja perlífera gigante de río; Margaritona; Náyade auriculada; Perla de río sources: spanish PESI focal point

Ukrainian: Перлівниця; Перлівниця вухата

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Citation

Dr. Rafael Araujo. Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e4093bc4-cb30-4d74-ba20-5d449772cbbb

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