22 Species in Family Margaritidae
Nominal species list for Margaritidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819) Sharks Bay pearl oyster
Pinctada anomioides (Reeve, 1857)
Pinctada capensis (Sowerby, 1889) Cape pearl-oyster
Pinctada chemnitzii (Philippi, 1847) Tiled pearl oyster
Pinctada fucata (Gould, 1850) Japanese pearl oyster
Pinctada imbricata Roding, 1798 Atlantic pearl-oyster
Pinctada inflata (Schumacher, 1817)
Pinctada longisquamosa (Dunker, 1852)
Pinctada maculata (Gould, 1850)
Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) Pacific pearl-oyster
Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901) Silverlip pearl oyster
Pinctada mazatlanica (Hanley, 1856) Mazatlan pearl oyster
Pinctada nigra (Gould, 1851)
Pinctada phuketensis Somrup, Sangsawang, Liu & Muangmai, 2022
Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814) Rayed pearl oyster
Pinctada sugillata (Reeve, 1857) Fringed pearl oyster
Pinctada syugillata (Reeve, 1857)
Pinctada vulgaris (Schumacher, 1817)
Antimargarita bentarti Aldea, Zelaya & Troncoso, 2009
Antimargarita dulcis (Smith, 1907)
Antimargarita powelli Aldea, Zelaya & Troncoso, 2009
Callogaza nubelevis Huang & Fu, 2019
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