Pinctada longisquamosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Ostreida
- Family
- Margaritidae
- Genus
- Pinctada
- Species
- Pinctada longisquamosa
- Scientific Name
- Pinctada longisquamosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pinctada longisquamosa
Pinctada longisquamosa, sometimes called scaly pearl oysters, are a small species of pearl oyster found in the western Atlantic. They are distinguished by unique prismatic shell structures which protrude from the outer shell.
...Pinctada longisquamosa in languages:
- English
- scaly pearl oyster
- Japanese
- イバラウグイスガイ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pinctada albina
- Pinctada capensis
- Pinctada chemnitzii
- Pinctada cumingii
- Pinctada fucata
- Pinctada galtsoffi
- Pinctada imbricata
- Pinctada inflata
- Pinctada longisquamosa
- Pinctada maculata
- Pinctada margaritifera
- Pinctada maxima
- Pinctada mazatlanica
- Pinctada nigra
- Pinctada petersii
- Pinctada radiata
- Pinctada reeveana
- Pinctada sugillata
- Pinctada vidua