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Pteria Scopoli, 1777

Pteria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)Specimen from Malaga harhour, Spain (actual size 80 mm)
Pteria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Specimen from Malaga harhour, Spain (actual size 80 mm)

138397 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138397)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Ostreida (Order)
  8. Pterioidea (Superfamily)
  9. Pteriidae (Family)
  10. Pteria (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Avicula Bruguière, 1792 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

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  1. Species Pteria aegyptiaca (Dillwyn, 1817)
  2. Species Pteria atlantica (Lamarck, 1819)
  3. Species Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802)
  4. Species Pteria colymbus (Röding, 1798)
  5. Species Pteria gregata (Reeve, 1857)
  6. Species Pteria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
  7. Species Pteria penguin (Röding, 1798)
  8. Species Pteria tortirostris (Dunker, 1849)
  9. Subgenus Pteria (Margaritifera) Jameson, 1901 accepted as Pinctada Röding, 1798 (junior homonym)
    1. Species Pteria (Margaritifera) mauritii Jameson, 1901 accepted as Pinctada maculata (A. A. Gould, 1850) (junior subjective synonym)
  10. Species Pteria chinensis (Leach, 1814) accepted as Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802)
  11. Species Pteria crocata (Swainson, 1831) accepted as Pinctada crocata (Swainson, 1831)
  12. Species Pteria fuscopurpurea (E. A. Smith, 1876) accepted as Electroma fuscopurpurea (E. A. Smith, 1876)
  13. Species Pteria imbricata (Röding, 1798) accepted as Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798
  14. Species Pteria iridescens (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802)
  15. Species Pteria loveni (Dunker, 1879) accepted as Pteria gregata (Reeve, 1857)
  16. Species Pteria macroptera (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Pteria penguin (Röding, 1798)
  17. Species Pteria malleoides (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Electroma alacorvi (Dillwyn, 1817)
  18. Species Pteria margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
  19. Species Pteria marmorata (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Pteria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
  20. Species Pteria occa (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Pinctada chemnitzii (R. A. Philippi, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  21. Species Pteria physoides (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Pterelectroma physoides (Lamarck, 1819)
  22. Species Pteria placunoides (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819)
  23. Species Pteria savignyi (Deshayes, 1830) accepted as Pteria aegyptiaca (Dillwyn, 1817)
  24. Species Pteria semisagitta (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Pteria penguin (Röding, 1798)
  25. Species Pteria spadicea (Dunker, 1852) accepted as Electroma alacorvi (Dillwyn, 1817)
  26. Species Pteria vulgaris (Schumacher, 1817) accepted as Pinctada vulgaris (Schumacher, 1817)
  27. Species Pteria zebra (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Pterelectroma physoides (Lamarck, 1819)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Scopoli, G.A. (1777). Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. <em>Pragae. Wolfgang Gerle.</em> Pp i-x + 1-506., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10827 [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Pteria Scopoli, 1777. Accessed through: 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 at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138397 on 2026-07-11
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 Scopoli, 1777. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138397 on 2026-07-11
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Gofas, Serge
2011-03-12 15:24:03Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2020-04-26 03:34:00Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce
2023-05-20 08:55:52Z
changed
Vinarski, Maxim

original description Scopoli, G.A. (1777). Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. <em>Pragae. Wolfgang Gerle.</em> Pp i-x + 1-506., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10827 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Avicula Bruguière, 1792) Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. <em>Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke.</em> volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): pl. 177 [details] 

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details] 

basis of record Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412, available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/14254
page(s): 64 [details] 

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] 

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] 
 
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pteria) 
To Genbank 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 63477 Exterior) (from synonym Avicula Bruguière, 1792)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 63477 Pearl) (from synonym Avicula Bruguière, 1792)
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