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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Pterioida (order) » Pteriidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 23 236001 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819) |
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. | Distribution map: |
| Family: | Pteriidae (pearl oysters) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | Pale Pearl Oyster | |
| Common Names List: | pale pearl oyster Shark Bay pearl oyster | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Pinctada albina albina Pinctada sugillata Pinctada albina sugillata Pinctada nigra | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
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| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Tropical Indo-West Pacific | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
23 236901
Pinctada spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a pearl oyster |
| Taxon Notes: | The dark colour form previously called Pinctada nigra is now included in this species, see Tëmkin, 2010. The range of this species is normally tropical, but juveniles attached to floating debris, eg pumice, are sometimes found well outside its' normal range due to drifting long distances with their substrate. See Grove (2014) Malac. Soc. Aust. Newsletter 152:10-11. This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 658002 (FISHLIST 658002). | ||||
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| Record source: | Lamprell, K. Healy, J., 1998, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Tëmkin, I., 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea)., Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 10(342): 1-28. |