MolluscaBase - Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901)

HKRMS taxon details

Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901)

AphiaID

464492 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464492)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pinctada Röding, 1798

Original name

Pteria (Margaritifera) maxima Jameson, 1901

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Jameson, H. L. (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 (1): 372-394., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31591344
page(s): 377-379 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901). Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2021) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464492 on 2025-05-01

Regional species database citation

Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2025). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464492 on 2025-05-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-03-09 16:12:34Z

created

Tëmkin, Ilya

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Jameson, H. L. (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 (1): 372-394., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31591344
page(s): 377-379 [details]

context source (HKRMS) Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Wada, K. ; Komaru, A. (1985). Karyotypes in Five Species of the Pteriidae (Bivalvia:Pteriomorphia)". VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 44(3): 183-192. [details] Available for editors

status 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

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]