Chinese Register of Marine Species - Pinctada Röding, 1798

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

ChaRMS taxon details

Pinctada Röding, 1798

AphiaID

138396 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138396)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Margaritidae Blainville, 1824

Original name

Pinctada Röding, 1798

Direct children (9)

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Species Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819)
Species Pinctada chemnitzii (R. A. Philippi, 1849)
Species Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798
Species Pinctada maculata (A. A. Gould, 1850)
Species Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901)
Species Pinctada nigra (A. A. Gould, 1850)
Species Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814)
Species Pinctada anomioides (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

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]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Pinctada Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138396 on 2026-10-08

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Pinctada Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138396 on 2026-10-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-09-27 07:06:07Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-03-09 10:07:30Z

changed

Tëmkin, Ilya

2012-07-13 21:57:18Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-10-24 13:31:58Z

changed

Bieler, Rüdiger

2020-03-25 19:27:59Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description 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]

additional source Cunha R.L., Blanc F., Bonhomme F. & Arnaud-Haond S. (2011) Evolutionary patterns in pearl oysters of the genus Pinctada (Bivalvia: Pteriidae). Marine Biotechnology 13: 181–192., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-010-9278-y [details]

additional source Hynd, J. (1955). A Revision of the Australian Pearl-shells, Genus Pinctada (Lamellibranchia). Marine and Freshwater Research. 6(1): 98., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/mf9550098 [details] Available for editors

additional 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]

additional source Wada T.K. & Tëmkin I. 2008. Taxonomy and phylogeny. pp. 37-76. In: The Pearl Oyster (P. Southgate & J. Lucas, eds). Elsevier, 544 p. , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=SzkhMsW7Q14C [details]

additional source Yu, D. H.; Chu, K. H. (2006). Species identity and phylogenetic relationship of the pearl oysters in Pinctada Röding, 1798 based on ITS sequence analysis. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 34(3): 240-250., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2005.09.004 [details] Available for editors

redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]

subsequent type designation Iredale, T. (1915). Some more misused generic names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 11: 291-306., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15715842
page(s): 305 [details]

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