African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

AfReMaS name details

Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

214934 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214934)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Meleagrina Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Pinctada Röding, 1798

Original name

Mytilus margaritiferus Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 704 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214934 on 2026-08-16

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214934 on 2026-08-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-11-14 15:35:57Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2002-07-24 17:19:06Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2020-06-05 07:26:58Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 704 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. <em>Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales.</em> 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Annandale, N. (1907). An enemy of certain pearl oysters in the Persian Gulf. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 1(2): 176., available online at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/001/02/0176-0176.pdf [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (348 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection