Margaritifera

Margaritifera
Margaritifera margaritifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionoida
Family:	Margaritiferidae
Genus:	Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816

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:

• Margaritifera auricularia or Pseudunio auricularia - Spengler's freshwater mussel
• Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)
• Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)
• Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Freshwater pearl mussel
• Margaritifera marrianae R. I. Johnson, 1983