World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WRiMS 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

Synonymised names

Meleagrina Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

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Species Pinctada fucata (A. A. Gould, 1850)
Species Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798
Species Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814)

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: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138396 on 2026-08-08

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Pinctada Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138396 on 2026-08-08

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]

original description (of Meleagrina 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
page(s): 150 [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

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 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]

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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