MolluscaBase - Pinctada mazatlanica (Hanley, 1856)

WoRMS taxon details

Pinctada mazatlanica (Hanley, 1856)

AphiaID

464493 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464493)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pinctada Röding, 1798

Original name

Meleagrina mazatlanica Hanley, 1856

Synonymised names

Avicula barbata Reeve, 1857 · unaccepted (synonym)

Meleagrina mazatlanica Hanley, 1856 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Meleagrina mazatlanica Hanley, 1856) Hanley, S. (1842-1856). An illustrated and descriptive catalogue of Recent bivalve shells, with 960 figures by Wood and Sowerby forming and Appendix to the Index Testaceologicus. Williams and Norgate, London. pp. i-xviii, 1-392, 1-8 (Systematic list of the shells figured in this work), 1-24 (A list of the species delineated in the supplementary plates), pl. 1-24., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122011
page(s): 388 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Mexican part of the North Pacific Ocean

type locality contained in Mexican part of the North Pacific Ocean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomy suggested as possible synonym of Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) by Tëmkin (2010: 25)

Taxonomy suggested as possible synonym of Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) by Tëmkin (2010: 25) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pinctada mazatlanica (Hanley, 1856). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464493 on 2025-03-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-03-09 16:12:34Z

created

Tëmkin, Ilya

2013-04-07 21:54:29Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Meleagrina mazatlanica Hanley, 1856) Hanley, S. (1842-1856). An illustrated and descriptive catalogue of Recent bivalve shells, with 960 figures by Wood and Sowerby forming and Appendix to the Index Testaceologicus. Williams and Norgate, London. pp. i-xviii, 1-392, 1-8 (Systematic list of the shells figured in this work), 1-24 (A list of the species delineated in the supplementary plates), pl. 1-24., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122011
page(s): 388 [details]

original description (of Avicula barbata 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
page(s): pl. 5, species 9 [details]

Taxonomy

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]

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 (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]