African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802)

AfReMaS taxon details

Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802)

AphiaID

464504 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464504)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pteria Scopoli, 1777

Original name

Mytilus avicular Holten, 1802

Synonymised names

Avicula crocea Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted (synonym)

Pteria chinensis (Leach, 1814) · unaccepted

Pteria iridescens (Reeve, 1857) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Holten, H. S. 1802. Enumeratio systematica conchyliorum beat J. H. Chemnitzii quondam ecclesiae Zebaothi Havniae pastoris, plurim societum sodialis p. p. quae publica auctione venduntur die 7me Decembris ano pres. Copenhagen: K. H. Scidelini. vi + 88 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46195957 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802). 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=464504 on 2026-08-06

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. Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464504 on 2026-08-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-03-09 16:12:34Z

created

Tëmkin, Ilya

2010-10-01 21:22:21Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2011-03-12 15:24:03Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Holten, H. S. 1802. Enumeratio systematica conchyliorum beat J. H. Chemnitzii quondam ecclesiae Zebaothi Havniae pastoris, plurim societum sodialis p. p. quae publica auctione venduntur die 7me Decembris ano pres. Copenhagen: K. H. Scidelini. vi + 88 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46195957 [details]

original description (of Avicula crocea Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441 [details]

context source (HKRMS) Huang ZG. & Mak PMS. (1982). Studies on biofouling in Tolo Harbour. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the first international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 2: pp 767-787. [details]

basis of record Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 135 [details]

additional source Kilburn, R. N. (1975). Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (5): including descriptions of new taxa of Rissoidae, Cerithiidae. Tonnidae, Cassididae, Buccinidae, Fasciolariidae, Turbinellidae, Turridae, Architectonicidae, Epitoniidae, Limidae and Thraciidae. Annals of the Natal Museum. 22-2.
page(s): 614, fig. 21b. [details] Available for editors

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]