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Taxonomy
Pinctada colymbus was named by Röding (1798). It is extant.
It was recombined as Pteria colymbus by Richards et al. (1969) and Rosenberg (2005).
It was recombined as Pteria colymbus by Richards et al. (1969) and Rosenberg (2005).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1798 | Pinctada colymbus Röding |
| 1969 | Pteria colymbus Richards et al. p. 4 |
| 2005 | Pteria colymbus Rosenberg |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Pteria colymbus Röding 1798
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Voigt 1973 | |||||
Age range: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Zanclean | USA (South Carolina) | Pteria colymbus (60940) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (Virginia) | Pteria colymbus (78265) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Pteria colymbus (41501 79331 79338 79787) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Pteria colymbus (67069 80046) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Pteria colymbus (61311 96538) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (South Carolina) | Pteria colymbus (66758 66760) |