MolluscaBase taxon details
Pteria colymbus (Röding, 1798)
420735 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420735)
accepted
Species
Avicula cornea Reeve, 1857 · unaccepted > junior homonym (invalid: not Dunker, 1852; Avicula...)
invalid: not Dunker, 1852; Avicula jamaicensis Dunker, 1879 is a replacement name
Avicula jamaicensis Dunker, 1879 · unaccepted (dubious synonym)
Avicula multangula H. C. Lea, 1843 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pinctada colymbus Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (original combination)
Pteria multangula (H. C. Lea, 1843) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine
(of Pinctada colymbus Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 167 [details]
page(s): 167 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pteria colymbus (Röding, 1798). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420735 on 2025-06-29
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original description
(of Pinctada colymbus Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 167 [details]
original description (of Avicula cornea Reeve, 1857) Reeve, L. A. (1857). Monograph of the genus <i>Avicula</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pls 1-7 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 2-14, March 1857; pls. 1, 15-18, June 1857]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127570 [details]
original description (of Avicula jamaicensis Dunker, 1879) Dunker, W. (1872–1880). Die Gattung <i>Avicula</i> in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. pp. 1–84,. <em>in: H.C. Küster (ed.), Systematisches Conchylien–Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz.</em> Volume 7, part 3. Bauer und Raspe, Nurnberg [pp. 1–56, pl. 1–18, 1872; pp. 57–68, pl. 19–24, 1879; pp. 69–84, pl. 25–27, 1880]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34340065
page(s): 65 [details]
original description (of Avicula multangula H. C. Lea, 1843 †) Lea, H. C. (1843). Abstract of a paper read before the American Philosophical Society, May 29th, 1843, entitled "Descriptions of some new fossil shells, from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia". H.C. Lea, Philadelphia. 12 pp. [Published before 18 October 1843. A separate and advanced publication of H.C. Lea 1846, with the same title].
page(s): 5 [details]
context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]
basis of record 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] Available for editors
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additional source Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2025). A taxonomic update for "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" (Mikkelsen and Bieler, 2007) with nomenclatural notes on other bivalve species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Tëmkin I. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). <i>BMC Evolutionary Biology</i> 10: 342., available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-10-342.pdf [details]
page(s): 167 [details]
original description (of Avicula cornea Reeve, 1857) Reeve, L. A. (1857). Monograph of the genus <i>Avicula</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pls 1-7 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 2-14, March 1857; pls. 1, 15-18, June 1857]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127570 [details]
original description (of Avicula jamaicensis Dunker, 1879) Dunker, W. (1872–1880). Die Gattung <i>Avicula</i> in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. pp. 1–84,. <em>in: H.C. Küster (ed.), Systematisches Conchylien–Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz.</em> Volume 7, part 3. Bauer und Raspe, Nurnberg [pp. 1–56, pl. 1–18, 1872; pp. 57–68, pl. 19–24, 1879; pp. 69–84, pl. 25–27, 1880]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34340065
page(s): 65 [details]
original description (of Avicula multangula H. C. Lea, 1843 †) Lea, H. C. (1843). Abstract of a paper read before the American Philosophical Society, May 29th, 1843, entitled "Descriptions of some new fossil shells, from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia". H.C. Lea, Philadelphia. 12 pp. [Published before 18 October 1843. A separate and advanced publication of H.C. Lea 1846, with the same title].
page(s): 5 [details]
context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]
basis of record 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] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2025). A taxonomic update for "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" (Mikkelsen and Bieler, 2007) with nomenclatural notes on other bivalve species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Tëmkin I. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). <i>BMC Evolutionary Biology</i> 10: 342., available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-10-342.pdf [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal in English Channel (IHO Sea Area) : Debris: transport of species on human generated debris [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pteria colymbus)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Pinctada colymbus Röding, 1798)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Malacopics (Pteria colymbus (Röding, 1798) Aruba, Malmok, ex coll. J. Trausel .)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pteria colymbus)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Pinctada colymbus Röding, 1798)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Malacopics (Pteria colymbus (Röding, 1798) Aruba, Malmok, ex coll. J. Trausel .)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
