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Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 214934

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pterioidea (Superfamily) > Pteriidae (Family) > Meleagrina (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Accepted name  Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Meleagrina Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Pinctada Röding, 1798
Source  basis of record: 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]

Distribution Madagascar [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214934
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2001-11-14 15:35:57Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2002-07-24 17:19:06Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214934 on 2013-05-23
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