Its range includes the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and coastal waters of India, China, Korea, Japan, and the Western Pacific Ocean.

[3] The sexes are separate in Pinctada fucata and gametes are released into the sea where fertilisation takes place.

The developing larvae pass through a veliger stage and after about twenty-four days settle on the seabed and become juvenile oysters known as spat.

The oyster spat is grown in mesh baskets immersed in the sea for two or three years until large enough to seed.

Not only is the pearl gathered, but the nacre lining the inside of the valves of the shell is used in jewelry and in the manufacture of ornamental objects.