WoRMS taxon details
Pinctada nigra (Gould, 1850)
AphiaID: 564657
AphiaID: 564657
| 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 nigra Gould, 1850 (original combination) Margaritifera natalensis Jameson, 1901 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
additional source: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 204 [details] additional source: Kilburn R.N. (1973). The type material of South African marine Mollusca in the Natal Museum collection. Part 1. Bivalvia. Annals of the Natal Museum 21(3):697-711. [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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Kisite Marine National Park [details] Mombasa [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 2 proteins) | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:564657 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Pinctada nigra (Gould, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=564657 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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