Genus Crassostrea Sacco, 1897

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Regional Maps

• Crassostrea Sacco, F. 1897. I Molluschi dei Terreni Terziarii del Piemonte e Della Liguria. Part XXIII, Pelecypoda. Torino : Libraio R Accad. Sci. 66 pp., 11 pls. [15].

  Type species:

   Ostrea virginica Gmelin, 1790 by original designation.
• Gryphaea Fischer, P. 1886. Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique. Vol. 10 pp. 987. [927] [junior homonym; not Gryphaea Lamarck, 1801].

  Type species:

   Gryphaea angulata Lamarck, 1819 by original designation.
• Crassostrea (Euostrea) Jaworski, E. 1913. Beiträge zur Stammesgeschichte der Austern. Zeitschrift für Induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre 9: 192-215 [192].
• Dioeciostrea Orton, J.H. 1928. The dominant species of Ostrea. Nature (London) 121: 320-321 [320].

  Type species:

   Dioeciostrea americana Orton, 1928 (new name for Crassostrea virginica) by original designation.
• Angustostrea Vyalov, O.S. 1936. Sur la classification des huitres. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 1: 17-20 [18].

  Type species:

   Ostrea angusta Deshayes, 1824 by original designation.
• Somalidacna Azzaroli, A. 1958. L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminiferi, Coralli, Molluschi). Palaeontographia Italica 52: 1-143 [115].

  Type species:

   Somalidacna lamellosa Azzaroli, 1958 (=Crassostrea gryphoides (von Schlotheim, 1813)) by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part A) pp. xvi, 1-563. [272-273]

Brock, V. 1990. Intergeneric distances between Ostrea, Crassostrea, and Saccostrea, studied by means of crossed immuno-electrophoresis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 68: 59-63

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [85]

Harry, H.W. 1985. Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28(2): 121-158 [152-156]

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [609]

Jianjun Xia, Ziniu Yu & Xiaoyu Kong 2008. Identification of seven Crassostrea oysters from the south China Sea using PCR-RFLP analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75: 139-146

Klinbunga, S., Khamnamtong, B., Puanglarp, N., Jarayabhand, P., Yoosukh, W. & Menasveta, P. 2005. Molecular taxonomy of cupped oysters (Crassostrea, Saccostrea, and Striostrea) in Thailand based on COI, 16S, and 18S rDNA polymorphism. Marine Biotechnology 7: 306-317

Lam, K. & Morton, B. 2003. Mitochondrial DNA and morphological identification of a new species of Crassostrea (Bivalvia: Ostreidae) cultured for centuries in the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong, China. Aquaculture 228: 1-13

Lam, K. & Morton, B. 2006. Morphological and mitochondrial-DAN analysis of the Indo-West Pacific rock oysters (Ostreidae: Saccostrea species). Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 235-245

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [134]

Stenzel, H.B. 1971. Vol. 3. Oysters. pp. N953-N1224 in Moore, R.C. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. [N1128]

Thomson, J.M. 1954. The genera of oysters and the Australian species. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5(1): 132-168 [141-142]

Torigoe, K. 1981. Oysters in Japan. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University 29(2): 291-419 [324]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		28-Jul-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	OSTREOIDEA	21-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		06-Jan-2011	MODIFIED