WoRMS name details
Pinctada vulgaris (Schumacher, 1817)
207900 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207900)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Species
Margaritifera vulgaris (Schumacher, 1817) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Meleagrina vulgaris (Schumacher, 1817) · unaccepted
Perlamater vulgaris Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pteria vulgaris (Schumacher, 1817) · unaccepted
marine
(of Perlamater vulgaris Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 108; pl. 20 fig. 3; note: based in part on Chemnitz (1785), vol. 8, p. 126, pl. 80 fig. 717 [details]
page(s): 108; pl. 20 fig. 3; note: based in part on Chemnitz (1785), vol. 8, p. 126, pl. 80 fig. 717 [details]
Taxonomy "Schumacher's figure is too poor and his description too brief to be of any real value and, in the absence of a type...
Taxonomy "Schumacher's figure is too poor and his description too brief to be of any real value and, in the absence of a type specimen and a type locality, [the present author] regards the species as unidentifiable [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pinctada vulgaris (Schumacher, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207900 on 2025-12-03
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Nomenclature
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(of Perlamater vulgaris Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 108; pl. 20 fig. 3; note: based in part on Chemnitz (1785), vol. 8, p. 126, pl. 80 fig. 717 [details]
basis of record Spry, J. F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). <em>Tanganyika Notes and Records.</em> 63: 123-164, 8 pls. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 108; pl. 20 fig. 3; note: based in part on Chemnitz (1785), vol. 8, p. 126, pl. 80 fig. 717 [details]
basis of record Spry, J. F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). <em>Tanganyika Notes and Records.</em> 63: 123-164, 8 pls. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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status source
Hynd, J. (1955). A Revision of the Australian Pearl-shells, Genus <i>Pinctada</i> (Lamellibranchia). <em>Marine and Freshwater Research.</em> 6(1): 98., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/mf9550098
page(s): 114 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 114 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Narayanan, K. R. & Michael, M. S. (1968). On the relation between age and linear measurements of the pearl oyster, <i>Pinctada vulgaris</i> (Schumacher), of the Gulf of Kutch. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 65(2): 444-452, text-figs. 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48067967 [details]
additional source Narayanan, K. R. & Michael, M. S. (1968). On the relation between age and linear measurements of the pearl oyster, <i>Pinctada vulgaris</i> (Schumacher), of the Gulf of Kutch. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 65(2): 444-452, text-figs. 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48067967 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomy "Schumacher's figure is too poor and his description too brief to be of any real value and, in the absence of a type specimen and a type locality, [the present author] regards the species as unidentifiable [details]
