Pinna nobilis
Pinna nobilis, Latinitate classica pina, (Graece ) est species magnorum bivalvium marinorum familiae Pinnidarum. Ea est in Mari Mediterraneo endemica, et ante litus ad 20 m habitare mavult.

Testa, cuius forma variat, ad 91 cm longa crescere potest. Quae, sicut testae omnium Pinnidarum, fragilis est. Interiora luculenta naccara teguntur.

Animal se ad saxa bysso adligat, qui fons byssini (vel "serici marini") est, textilis quod olim ex bysso effectum est.

Annis recentioribus, Pinna nobilis paene exstincta est propter nimium piscatum — quod enim molluscum edule est — et deminutionem agrorum graminis marini et pollutionem circumiectus.

Notae

Bibliographia

 Abbott, R. Tucker, et S. Peter Dance. 1982. Compendium of seashells: a color guide to more than 4,200 of the world’s marine shells. Novi Eboraci: E. P. Dutton Inc. ISBN 0-525-93269-0.
 Hill, John E. 2004. The Peoples of the West. Liber Weilüe ex saeculo tertio conversus. Vide sectionem 12 et appendicem D.
 Hill, John E. 2009. Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. Charleston, Carolinae Meridianae: BookSurge. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1. Vide sectionem 12 et appendicem B, "Sea Silk."
Laufer, Berthold. 1915. "The Story of the Pinna and the Syrian Lamb." The Journal of American Folk-Lore 28(108): 103–128.
 McKinley, Daniel L. 1988. "Pinna and Her Silken Beard: A Foray Into Historical Misappropriations." Ars Textrina: A Journal of Textiles and Costumes 29 (Iunius): 9–223.
 Maeder, Felicitas. 2002. "The project Sea-silk: Rediscovering an Ancient Textile Material." Archaeological Textiles Newsletter 35 (autumn): 8–11.
 Maeder, Felicitas, Ambros Hänggi, et Dominik Wunderlin, eds. 2004. Bisso marino: Fili d’oro dal fondo del mare—Muschelseide: Goldene Fäden vom Meeresgrund. Basel, Helvetiae: Naturhistoriches Museum and Museum der Kulturen.
Schafer, Edward H. 1967. The Vermillion Bird: T'ang Images of the South. University of California Press.
 Turner, Ruth D., et Joseph Rosewater. 1958. "The Family Pinnidae in the Western Atlantic" Johnsonia 3 (38; 28 Iunii): 285–326.
 Tyndale, John Warre. 1849. Island of Sardinia, including Pictures of the Manners and Customs of the Sardinians. . . . 3 vol. Londinii: Richard Bentley.

Nexus externi
 Imago duarum testarum apud situm eumed.net

Cibus marinus
Pinnidae
Species animalium
Taxa Linnaei
Taxa 1758