Pinctada Fucata: The industry term for the saltwater mollusk that produces Akoya cultured pearls.
Pinctada Maxima: The industry term for the White-lip oyster that produces South Sea Pearls.
Pinctada
Refers to a pearl-producing oyster genus.
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The Pinctada Margaritifera "Black-Lipped" Oyster
Tahitian Pearls are found in a mollusk that is native to the islands of French Polynesia. This bivalve mollusk is called the "black-lipped" oyster, or Pinctada Margaritifera cumingi.
Pinctada margaritifera. See P. margaritifera.
Blemish
Refers to any surface defect on a pearl. Blemishes may include cracks, chips, dull spots, wrinkles, spots, holes, bumps, and pits.
Pinctada fucata or Pinctada martens (commonly called Akoya Pearl Oyster): Akoya cultured pearls-producing saltwater mollusks grown in the cooler waters of Japan or China.
Pinctada Fucata Martensii oysters produce pearls which are round, lustrous and beautiful. It takes about two years for the pearl to grow. If left for a longer period the quality and size gets better. Colors are varied.
South Sea Pearls: ...
South Sea pearls are cultured in the Pinctada maxima oyster, a mollusk found in an area stretching from Australia to southern China. Spinel:A mineral that naturally occurs in all colors.
They are produced by the large, black-lipped pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera (also called the Tahitian black pearl oyster), a mollusk found in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean.
The Giant Silver Lipped and Gold Lipped PINCTADA MAXIMA oysters of the South Seas, produce most of the worlds large natural Pearls. A Pearl is formed when a piece of sand or other foreign substance enters into the living membrane of an oyster.
These pearls are produced by the silver-lipped or gold-lipped variety of the Pinctada Maxima oyster.
Tahitian legend says that Te Ufi (pinctada margaritifera) was given to man by Oro, the god of peace and fertility, who came to earth on a rainbow and offered the pearl to the beautiful princess Bora Bora as a sign of eternal love.
With one exception, the various oysters which produce all types of SWCP are species belonging to the genus Pinctada. For example: Pinctada imbricata, P. margarifera, and P. maxima.
Above all in French Polynesia, Tahitian pearls have been cultivated since the 1960s inside the black-lipped pearl-bearing bivalve Pinctada margaritifera.
akoya pearl A pearl from the saltwater akoya-gai oyster (Pinctada martensii); "Japanese pearl."
baroque Any pearl that is not symmetrical, round, or teardrop, oval, or button shaped.
The Mergui Archipelago has a long stretch of coastal area with over 800 islands. This area also produces some of the finest silver-pink and golden pearls. At pearl island hatcheries, pearls are cultured from bivalve mollusks, Pinctada maxima and ...
South Sea Pearl
Considered to be the largest cultured pearl, it is cultivated from Pinctada Maxima, one of the largest pearl producing oysters in the world. Colors of this pearl include white, silver and gold.
south sea pearl
A natural or cultured pearl produced by the mollusk Pinctada maxima, usually having a yellow or gold bodycolour ...
Black mother of pearl is most likely cut from a special black-lipped mollusk known as the pinctada margaritifera.
Peacock Pearl
Peacock pearls are a type of black pearls that are dark-green (almost black). These pearls (like all black pearls) are produced by the oyster Pinctada margaritifera.
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