Chinese Register of Marine Species - Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901)

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

ChaRMS taxon details

Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901)

AphiaID

464492 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464492)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pinctada Röding, 1798

Original name

Pteria (Margaritifera) maxima Jameson, 1901

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Jameson, H. L. (1901). On the identity and distribution of the Mother of Pearl Oysters with a revision of the subgenus Margaritifera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1901 (1): 372-394., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31591344
page(s): 377-379 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901). 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=464492 on 2026-10-05

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 maxima (Jameson, 1901). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464492 on 2026-10-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-03-09 16:12:34Z

created

Tëmkin, Ilya

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original description (of ) Jameson, H. L. (1901). On the identity and distribution of the Mother of Pearl Oysters with a revision of the subgenus Margaritifera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1901 (1): 372-394., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31591344
page(s): 377-379 [details]

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

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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

status 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. The Nautilus. 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 5 [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]