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Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819) 
AphiaID: 464498

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 (Meleagrina) atropurpurea Dunker, 1852 (synonym)
 Avicula (Meleagrina) concinna Dunker, 1872 (synonym)
 Avicula (Meleagrina) reentsii Dunker, 1872 (synonym)
 Avicula (Meleagrina) reeveana Dunker, 1872 (synonym)
 Avicula (Meleagrina) scheepmakeri Dunker, 1872 (synonym)
 Avicula (Meleagrina) tristis Dunker, 1872 (synonym)
 Avicula anomioides Reeve, 1857 (synonym)
 Avicula fimbriata Reeve, 1857 (synonym)
 Avicula flexuosa Reeve, 1957 (synonym)
 Avicula imbricata Reeve, 1857 [non Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798] (synonym)
 Avicula irradians Reeve, 1857 (synonym)
 Avicula placunoides Reeve, 1857 (synonym)
 Avicula radula Reeve, 1857 (synonym)
 Avicula sugillata Reeve, 1857 (synonym)
 Meleagrina albina Lamarck, 1819 (original combination)
 Pinctada atropurpurea (Dunker, 1852)
 Pinctada perrutila Iredale, 1939
 Pteria (Margaritifera) carchariarum Jameson, 1901 (synonym)
 Pteria placunoides
Sources  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: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464498
Taxonomic
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2010-03-09 16:12:34Z  created  Tëmkin, Ilya
  
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  Citation: Tëmkin, I. (2013). Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464498 on 2013-05-25
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