WoRMS taxon details
Pinctada chemnitzii (Philippi, 1849)
AphiaID: 207898
AphiaID: 207898
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pterioidea (Superfamily) > Pteriidae (Family) > Pinctada (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Pinctada Röding, 1798 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Avicula chemnitzii Philippi, 1849 (original combination) Avicula lentiginosa Reeve, 1857 (synonym) Avicula tegulata Reeve, 1857 (synonym) Pinctada epitheca Iredale, 1939 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Distribution | East Coast of South Africa [details] Mozambique [details] South Africa (country) [details] South Coast of South Africa [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Remark: In family 'aviculidae' in Kalk (1958). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207898 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Tëmkin, I. (2013). Pinctada chemnitzii (Philippi, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207898 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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