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As Joseph Rosewater [1] commented in 1961: "“The Pinnidae have considerable economic importance in many parts of the world. They produce pearls of moderate value. In the Mediterranean area, material made from the holdfast or byssus of Pinna nobilis Linné has been utilized in the manufacture of clothing for many centuries: gloves, shawls, stockings and cloaks.
Pinna nobilis, known by the common names noble pen shell and fan mussel, is a large species of Mediterranean clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pinnidae, the pen shells. [ 2 ] It reaches up to 120 cm (4 ft) of shell length. [ 3 ]
Pinna noblis shell & byssus. Shell. These pen shells can reach a length of about 80–90 cm (31–35 in). They are characterized by thin, elongated, wedge-shaped, and almost triangular shells with long, toothless edges.
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Atrina is a cosmopolitan genus of bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pinnidae.. A typical species is A. fragilis, found in British waters. A. rigida (Lightfoot, 1786) is found on the southeast coast of North America and in the West Indies.
Atrina pectinata is a species of bivalves belonging to the family Pinnidae. [1] The species is found in the Old World. [1] They are important in commercial fishing in Asia. They have the common name of kijogae [pen shells]. [2] A. pectinata is a sedentary long-lived species that lives up to 7 years. [3]
The amber pen shell can be found in coastal western Atlantic waters, ranging from southern Florida across the Caribbean and the West Indies to Brazil. [2] [3] [4] [5]The amber pen shell is benthic and usually occurs in medium to coarse sand or mixed substrata (sand, gravel, rocks), in fine calcareous sandy mud of eelgrass (e.g. Zostera spp.), in sandy substrata of turtle grass (e.g. Thalassia ...
Pinna bicolor is native to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, and is commonly found in shallow waters up to 50 m (160 ft) deep. [6] [3] It also inhabits tropical zones from 35 o N-37 o S and 29 o E-154 o W; occurs from the south and eastern African coasts, Madagascar, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and India, as well as spanning from Japan to southern Australia and the whole East Indies.