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2. Pinctada fucata - Wikipedia

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   Pinctada fucata, the Akoya pearl oyster (阿古屋貝), is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae, the pearl oysters. Some authorities classify this oyster as Pinctada fucata martensii (Gould, 1850). [1] It is native to shallow waters in the Indo-Pacific region and is used in the culture of pearls.

3. Cultured pearl - Wikipedia

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   The original Japanese cultured pearls, known as akoya pearls, are produced by a species of small pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata, which is no bigger than 6 to 8 cm in size, hence akoya pearls larger than 10 mm in diameter are extremely rare and highly priced. Today, a hybrid mollusk is used in both Japan and China in the production of akoya pearls.

4. Keshi pearl - Wikipedia

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   Akoya pearl cultivation, which began in the 1920s in Japan, provided numerous small, most often greyish pearls as a by-product. Traders from India, where natural pearls were harvested and processed during past centuries, needed no sales talk to be convinced that they could sell Japan Akoya keshi in their market and to visiting Arabs as natural ...

5. Pinctada - Wikipedia

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   Pinctada albina (Lamarck, 1819) – Shark Bay pearl oyster; Pinctada capensis (Sowerby III, 1890) Pinctada chemnitzii (Philippi, 1849) Pinctada cumingii (Reeve, 1857) Pinctada fucata (Gould, 1850) – Akoya pearl oyster – now accepted as Pinctada fucata martensii ; Pinctada galtsoffi Bartsch, 1931; Pinctada imbricata Röding, 1798 – Gulf ...

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7. Pearl - Wikipedia

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   The original Japanese cultured pearls, known as akoya pearls, are produced by a species of small pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata martensii, which is no bigger than 6 to 8 cm (2.4 to 3.1 in) in size, hence akoya pearls larger than 10 mm in diameter are extremely rare and highly priced. Today, a hybrid mollusk is used in both Japan and China in the ...