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Bivalvia | Ostreida | Pterioidea | Margaritidae

genus Pinctada Röding, 1798: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Pinctada Röding, 1798

Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: ??.

Margarita Leach, 1814

Leach, 1814. Zool. Misc. 1: 107.
Type species: Margarita sinensis Leach, 1814 = Pinctada margaritifera

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Pinctada, since 1900.

Pinctada — Combosch et al. (2017)

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