World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Pteria colymbus (Röding, 1798)

AphiaID

420735 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420735)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pteria Scopoli, 1777

Original name

Pinctada colymbus Röding, 1798

Synonymised names

Avicula cornea Reeve, 1857 · unaccepted > junior homonym (invalid: not Dunker, 1852; Avicula...)

invalid: not Dunker, 1852; Avicula jamaicensis Dunker, 1879 is a replacement name

Avicula jamaicensis Dunker, 1879 · unaccepted (dubious synonym)

Pinctada colymbus Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Pinctada colymbus 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
page(s): 167 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pteria colymbus (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420735 on 2025-04-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-10-06 12:38:14Z

created

db_admin

2010-03-09 16:12:34Z

changed

Tëmkin, Ilya

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Pinctada colymbus 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
page(s): 167 [details]

original description (of Avicula cornea Reeve, 1857) Reeve, L. A. (1857). Monograph of the genus Avicula. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, 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 [details]

original description (of Avicula jamaicensis Dunker, 1879) Dunker, W. (1872–1880). Die Gattung Avicula in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. pp. 1–84,. in: H.C. Küster (ed.), Systematisches Conchylien–Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Volume 7, part 3. Bauer und Raspe, Nurnberg [pp. 1–56, pl. 1–18, 1872; pp. 57–68, pl. 19–24, 1879; pp. 69–84, pl. 25–27, 1880]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34340065
page(s): 65 [details]

basis of record Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

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]

Other

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]

additional 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

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