WoRMS taxon details
Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 207899
AphiaID: 207899
| 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 cumingii Reeve, 1857 (synonym) Margarita sinensis Leach, 1814 (synonym) Margaritifera fimbriata Bryan, 1915 (synonym) Margaritifera margaritifera var. zanzibarensis Jameson, 1901 Margaritiphora communis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 (synonym) Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) Meleagrina nigromarginata Saville-Kent, 1893 (synonym) Mytilus margaritiferus Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Pinctada foliacea Röding, 1798 Pteria margaritifera Linnaeus | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Kilburn R.N. (1975). Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (5): including descriptions of new taxa of Rissoidae, Cerithiidae, Tonnidae, Cassididae, Buccinidae, Fasciolariidae, Turbinellidae, Turridae, Architectonicidae, Epitoniidae, Limidae and Thraciidae.. Annals of the Natal Museum 22(2):577-622, figs. 1-25. [details] additional source: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [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] from synonym: Odhner, N.H.J. (1919). Contribution a la faune malacologique de Madagasar. Arkiv för Zoologi, K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 12(6): 1-52, 4 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6455070 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Chagos [details] Gazi Bay [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius [details] North Sea [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Anthessius pinctadae Humes, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (146 nucleotides; 106 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207899 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Tëmkin, I. (2013). Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207899 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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