WoRMS taxon details

Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

207899 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207899)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Ostreida (Order)
  8. Pterioidea (Superfamily)
  9. Margaritidae (Family)
  10. Pinctada (Genus)
  11. Pinctada margaritifera (Species)
accepted
Species
Pinctada Röding, 1798
marine
(of Mytilus margaritiferus Linnaeus, 1758) 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  PDF available [request]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207899 on 2026-08-28
Date
action
by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
1997-11-13 08:24:17Z
changed
Fondo, Esther
2010-03-09 16:12:34Z
changed
Tëmkin, Ilya

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Nomenclature

original description (of Pteria (Margaritifera) margaritifera var. zanzibarensis Jameson, 1901) Jameson, H. L. (1901). On the identity and distribution of the Mother of Pearl Oysters with a revision of the subgenus <i>Margaritifera</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1901 (1): 372-394., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31591344
page(s): 375 [details] 

original description (of Margarita sinensis Leach, 1814) Leach, W. E. (1814-1817). Zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new or interesting animals. <em>London.</em> Vol. 1</i> [1814]. Vol. 2 [1815], Vol. 3 [1817]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91180
page(s): 1: 107 [details] 

original description (of Mytilus margaritiferus Linnaeus, 1758) 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  PDF available [request]

original description (of Margaritiphora communis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811) Megerle von Mühlfeld, J. K. (1811). Entwurf eines neuen System's der Schalthiergehäuse. <em>Magazin für die neuesten Entdecklungen in der gesammten Naturkunde von der Gesellschaft Naturforschaft Freunde zu Berlin.</em> 5(1): 38-72, pl. 3., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=JicVAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 66 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Avicula cumingii 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
page(s): sp. 6 [details] 

original description (of Pinctada foliacea 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 [details] 

original description (of Meleagrina nigromarginata Saville-Kent, 1893) Saville-Kent W (1893) The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities, pp. 1-387, pls. 1-48, chromo pls. 1-16. Allen & Co., London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10697730
page(s): 213 [details] 

Taxonomy

taxonomy 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  PDF available [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] 

Other

context source (HKRMS) Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). <i>The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong</i>. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004630673 [details] 

additional source Kilburn, R. N. (1975). Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (5): including descriptions of new taxa of Rissoidae, Cerithiidae. <em>Tonnidae, Cassididae, Buccinidae, Fasciolariidae, Turbinellidae, Turridae, Architectonicidae, Epitoniidae, Limidae and Thraciidae. Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 22-2.
page(s): 610 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Lal, M. M.; Southgate, P. C.; Jerry, D. R.; Bosserelle, C.; Zenger, K. R. (2017). Swept away: ocean currents and seascape features influence genetic structure across the 18,000 Km Indo-Pacific distribution of a marine invertebrate, the black-lip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera. <em>BMC Genomics.</em> 18(1): 66 (21 pp.)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-3410-y [details] 

additional source Wada, K. ; Komaru, A. (1985). Karyotypes in Five Species of the Pteriidae (Bivalvia:Pteriomorphia)". <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 44(3): 183-192. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal in Italy (Nation) : Canals: natural range expansion through man-made canals [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) : Canals: natural range expansion through man-made canals [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) : Ships : General [details]
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LanguageName 
English Pacific pearl-oysterblack-lipped pearl oysterblack-lip pearl shellblack-lip pearl oyster  [details]
German Schwarzlippige PerlmuschelGroße Seeperlmuschel  [details]
Japanese クロチョウガイ  [details]
To Barcode of Life (430 barcodes) (from synonym Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Barcode of Life (52 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (348 publications) (from synonym Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Pteria margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Conchology (Pinctada margaritifera FREAK) 
To Conchology (Pinctada margaritifera FREAK) 
To Conchology (Pinctada margaritifera GIANT) 
To Conchology (Pinctada margaritifera GIANT) 
To Conchology (Pinctada margaritifera GIANT) 
To Conchology (Pinctada margaritifera) 
To Conchology (Pinctada margaritifera) 
To Conchology (Pinctada margaritifera) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Margaritifera margaritifera) (from synonym Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pinctada margaritifera) 
To GenBank (19681 nucleotides; 283 proteins) 
To GenBank (19681 nucleotides; 283 proteins) (from synonym Mytilus margaritiferus Linnaeus, 1758)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered) (from synonym Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Malacopics (Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) Egypt, Janub Sinai’, Gulf of Aqaba, Dahab, ... 
To Malacopics (Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus,1758) Sri Lanka, Trincomalee, Uppa Valle, by fishi... 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Meleagrina margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To ITIS
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