Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Ostreida > Superfamily Pterioidea > Family Margaritidae

Pinctada Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Margarita*	Leach, 1814	synonym

Children

Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798
Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814)

Literature

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.
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.
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.
additional source	Hynd, J. (1955). A Revision of the Australian Pearl-shells, Genus Pinctada (Lamellibranchia). Marine and Freshwater Research. 6(1): 98.
additional source	Tëmkin I. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 342.
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.
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.
subsequent type designation	Iredale, T. (1915). Some more misused generic names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 11: 291-306.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pinctada Röding, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138396