MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798

ERMS taxon details

Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798

AphiaID

207901 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207901)

Classification

Status

accepted

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Species

Parent

Pinctada Röding, 1798

Original name

Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798

Synonymised names

Avicula radiata var. canarina R. A. Philippi, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Subspecies Pinctada imbricata radiata (Leach, 1814) accepted as Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814)

Environment

marine

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
page(s): 167; note: based in part on Knorr (1766), vol. 2, pl. 25 fig. 2-3, and on Chemnitz (1785), vol. 8, pl. 80 fig. 719 [details]

Chemnitz, J. H. (1780-1795). Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet. Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nürnberg. Vol. 4 [1780]: [xxvii] + 344 pp. + 1 (errata), pl. 122-159; vol. 5 [1781]: [xxiv] + 324 p., pl. 160-193; vol. 6 [1782]: [xii] + 375 pp., pl. 1–36; vol. 7 [1784], [xii] + 356 pp., pl.. 37–69; vol. 8 [1785], xvi + 372 pp., pl. 70–102; vol. 9(1) [1786], xii + 151 pp., pl. 103–116; vol. 9(2) [1786], [xxvi] + 194 pp., pl. 117–136; vol. 10 [1788], [xx] + 376 pp., pl. 137–173; vol. 11 [1795], [xx] + 310 pp., pl. 174–213 [Work placed on the Official Index by ICZN Direction 1 (1954)] [volumes 1-3 are by F.H.W. Martini]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/43760
page(s): vol. 8 p. 134-135, pl. 80 fig. 719 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207901 on 2026-01-15

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798. Accessed at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207901 on 2026-01-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-05-26 07:50:32Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2010-03-09 16:12:34Z

changed

Tëmkin, Ilya

2012-07-05 23:43:01Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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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
page(s): 167; note: based in part on Knorr (1766), vol. 2, pl. 25 fig. 2-3, and on Chemnitz (1785), vol. 8, pl. 80 fig. 719 [details]

original description (of Avicula radiata var. canarina R. A. Philippi, 1849) Philippi, R. A. (1849-1851). Centuria quarta testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 6(2): 27–32 [May 1849]; 6(3): 33-35 [July 1849]; 8(2): 29-32 [June 1851]; 8(3): 39-48 [July 1851]; 8(4): 49-64 [15 July 1851]; 8(5): 65-74 [July 1851]. [Second issue (July 1849) entitled in error]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16300125, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16300529
page(s): 22 [details]

context source (HKRMS) Leung KF. & Morton B. (2003). Effects of long-term anthropogenic perturbations on three subtidal epibenthic molluscan communities in Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong: Perspectives on Marine Environment Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977-2001. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 655-717. [details]

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

additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 204. [details]

additional source Masaoka, T.; Kobayashi, T. (2005). Species identification of Pinctada imbricata using intergenic spacer of nuclear ribosomal RNA genes and mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene regions. Fisheries Science. 71(4): 837-846., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1444-2906.2005.01035.x [details] Available for editors

additional source Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 161. [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]

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]

original description (unavailable nomenclaturally) Chemnitz, J. H. (1780-1795). Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet. Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nürnberg. Vol. 4 [1780]: [xxvii] + 344 pp. + 1 (errata), pl. 122-159; vol. 5 [1781]: [xxiv] + 324 p., pl. 160-193; vol. 6 [1782]: [xii] + 375 pp., pl. 1–36; vol. 7 [1784], [xii] + 356 pp., pl.. 37–69; vol. 8 [1785], xvi + 372 pp., pl. 70–102; vol. 9(1) [1786], xii + 151 pp., pl. 103–116; vol. 9(2) [1786], [xxvi] + 194 pp., pl. 117–136; vol. 10 [1788], [xx] + 376 pp., pl. 137–173; vol. 11 [1795], [xx] + 310 pp., pl. 174–213 [Work placed on the Official Index by ICZN Direction 1 (1954)] [volumes 1-3 are by F.H.W. Martini]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/43760
page(s): vol. 8 p. 134-135, pl. 80 fig. 719 [details]