Genus Pinctada Röding, 1798
Compiler and date details
2011 - Philippe Bouchet & Jean-Pierre Rocroi, generic information
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Pinctada Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [166].
Type species:
Mytilus margaritiferus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation. - Margaritifera Jameson, L.H. 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: 372-394, figs 92-95 [372] [attributed by Jameson to Browne (1756), a pre-Linnean work; not available for nomenclature; invalid junior homonym of Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816 (Margaritiferidae)].
Type species:
Mytilus hirundo Linnaeus by monotypy. - Unionium Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38] [155].
- Margaritiphora Megerle 1811. Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde. Berlin Vol. 4. [66].
Type species:
Mytilus communis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 by monotypy. Type species:
Mytilus sinensis Leach, 1814 by monotypy.- Perlamater Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [38].
Type species:
Perlamater vulgaris Schumacher, 1817 by original designation. - Meleagrina Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [150].
Type species:
Mytilus margaritifera Lamarck, 1819 by monotypy. - Pintadina Blainville, H. de 1826. Pintadine, Meleagrina. (Conchyl.) Dénomination nouvelle que M. de Lamarck a imposée a genre Margarita. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 41: 93-94 [93].
Type species:
Mytilus margaritiferus Linnaeus by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Pantropical
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Other Regions
Coral Sea Islands Territory
General References
Colgan, D.J. & Ponder, W.F. 2002. Genetic discrimination of morphologically similar, sympatric species of pearl oysters (Mollusca : Bivalvia : Pinctada) in eastern Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 53: 697-709
Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [77]
Da Hui Yua & Ka Hou Chub 2005. 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
Doubilet, D. 1991. Australia's magnificent pearls. National Geographic Magazine 180(6): 108-123
Hedley, C. 1924. Australian pearl fisheries. Australian Museum Magazine 2(1): 4-11
Hynd, J.S. 1955. A revision of the Australian pearl-shells, genus Pinctada (Lamellibranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 6: 98-137
Iredale, T. 1915. Some more misused Molluscan Generic Names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 11: 291-306 [305]
Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [333]
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [10]
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [102]
Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N304]
Ranson, R. 1961. Les espèces d'huitres perlières du genre Pinctada (biologie de quelques-unes d'entre elles). Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 2 1-95, pls 1-42
Tëmkin, I. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(342): 1-28
Wada, K.T. & Tëmkin, I. 2008. Chapter 2. Taxonomy and phylogeny. pp. 37-74 in Southgate, P.C. & J.S. Lucas. The Pearl Oyster. Oxford, UK and Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Elsevier pp. i-xiii, 1-574.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-Aug-2023 | BIVALVIA | 22-Aug-2023 | MOVED | Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
| 11-Aug-2014 | 11-Aug-2014 | MOVED | ||
| 11-Aug-2014 | PTERIOIDEA | 28-Jun-2013 | MODIFIED | Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) |
| 11-Aug-2014 | 17-Nov-2010 | ADDED | ||
| 17-Nov-2010 | MODIFIED |