Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Eulamellibranchia > Superorder Palaeoheterodonta > Order Unionoida > 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 auricularia*	Spengler, 1793	objective synonym
*Margaritifera sinuatus*	auct.	subjective synonym
*Unio sinuata*	Lamarck, 1819	subjective synonym
*Margaritifera sinuatus*	auct.	misapplied name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English-United States: 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

Genbank

External Links

GBIF

Citation

Dr Rafael Araujo. Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=337889