WoRMS taxon details
Pinctada Röding, 1798
AphiaID: 138396
AphiaID: 138396
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pterioidea (Superfamily) > Pteriidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Mytilus margaritiferus Linnaeus, 1758 (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Pteriidae Gray, 1847 (1820) | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Avicula (Meleagrina) Lamarck, 1819 Margarita Leach, 1814 Margaritifera Jameson, 1901 (Attributed by Jameson to Browne, 1756 [pre-Linnean work; not ì available for nomenclature]. Invalid: junior homonym of ì Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816 [Margaritiferidae].) Margaritiphora Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 Meleagrina Lamarck, 1819 Perlamater Schumacher, 1817 (Perlamater vulgaris is a substitute name for Mytilus margaritiferus Gmelin, and Perlamater is thus a junior objective synonym of Pinctada.) Pintadina Gray, 1834 Pteria (Margaritifera) Jameson, 1901 Unionium Link, 1807 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
additional source: Wada T.K. & Tëmkin I. 2008. Taxonomy and phylogeny. pp. 37-76. In: The Pearl Oyster (P. Southgate & J. Lucas, eds). Elsevier, 544 p. , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=SzkhMsW7Q14C [details] redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] status source: Tëmkin I. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 342., available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-10-342.pdf [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819) Species Pinctada capensis (Sowerby III, 1890) Species Pinctada chemnitzii (Philippi, 1849) Species Pinctada cumingii (Reeve, 1857) Species Pinctada galtsoffi Bartsch, 1931 Species Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798
Species Pinctada longisquamosa (Dunker, 1852) Species Pinctada maculata (Gould, 1850) Species Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901) Species Pinctada mazatlanica (Hanley, 1856) Species Pinctada nigra (Gould, 1850) Species Pinctada petersii (Dunker, 1852) Species Pinctada reeveana (Dunker, 1872) Species Pinctada sugillata (Reeve, 1857) Species Pinctada vidua (Gould, 1850) Species Pinctada fucata (Gould, 1850) represented as Pinctada imbricata fucata (Gould, 1850) (alternate representation) Species Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814) represented as Pinctada imbricata radiata (Leach, 1814) (alternate representation) Species Pinctada anomioides (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901) Species Pinctada anomoides accepted as Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901) Species Pinctada atropurpurea (Dunker, 1852) accepted as Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819) Species Pinctada colymbus Röding, 1798 accepted as Pteria colymbus (Röding, 1798) Species Pinctada epitheca Iredale, 1939 accepted as Pinctada chemnitzii (Philippi, 1849) Species Pinctada foliacea Röding, 1798 accepted as Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Pinctada laosensis (Lea, 1863) accepted as Margaritifera laosensis (Lea, 1863) Species Pinctada martensi accepted as Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798 Species Pinctada martensii (Dunker, 1872) accepted as Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798 Species Pinctada penguin Röding, 1798 accepted as Pteria penguin (Röding, 1798) Species Pinctada perrutila Iredale, 1939 accepted as Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819) Species Pinctada vulgaris Schumacher accepted as Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Remark: Often erroneously attributed to Bolten [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138396 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Tëmkin, I.; Gofas, S. (2013). Pinctada Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138396 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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