Pinctada margaritifera

Author
Linnaeus, 1758
Common Names
  • Black-lip Pearl Oyster
  • Black-lip Pearl Shell
  • Pacific Pearl-oyster

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
20 meters
Overall Geographic Range
southwest Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific; now Florida
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • byssate
  • epibiotic
  • nonindigenous to Gulf of Mexico
References

  • Camp, D. K., W. G. Lyons, and T. H. Perkins. 1998. Checklists of selected shallow-water marine invertebrates of Florida. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, FMRI Technical Report TR-3. 238 pp.

  • Carlton, J. T. 1996. Marine bioinvasions: The alteration of marine ecosystems by nonindigenous species. Oceanography 9(1): 36–43.

  • Chesler, J. 1994. Not just bilgewater. American Conchologist 22(2): 13.

  • Mikkelsen, P. M., and R. Bieler. 2004. Critical catalog and annotated bibliography of marine bivalve records for the Florida Keys. Malacologia 46(2): 545–623.

  • OBIS. 2004. OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database. URL: http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-05-2024.

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