Species Hyotissa hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Giant Coxcomb Oyster, Honeycomb Oyster
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Ostrea gigas Humphrey, G. 1797. Museum Calonnianum : specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history collected by M. de Calonne in France and lately his property : consisting of an assemblage of the most beautiful and rare subjects in entomology, conchology, ornithology, mineralogy, &c. London : E. Bibl. Radcl. viii, 84 pp. [53] [invalid name; work rejected by ICZN Direction 32 for nomenclatorial purposes. Introduced as a replacement name for Mytilus hyotis Linnaeus].
- Ostrea cristigalli Saville-Kent, W. 1891. Oysters and Oyster Fisheries of Queensland. Brisbane : Government Printer. [1 pl. 3, fig. 2].
- Ostrea cristagalli Saville-Kent, W. 1893. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its Products and Potentialities. London : W.H. Allen & Co., Limited. [xiii] + 388 pp. 21 figs 64 pls. [244, pl. 14, fig. 5] [junior homonym; not Ostrea cristagalli Linnaeus, 1758].
- Ostrea jacobaea Rochebrune, A.T.d. 1895. Diagnose de mollusques nouveaux, provenant du voyage de M. Diguet en Basse-Californie. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 1(6): 239-243 [241] [junior homonym; not Ostrea jacobaea Linnaeus, 1758].
- Ostrea fischeri Dall, W.H. 1914. Notes on West American oysters. Nautilus 28: 1-3 [1] [replacement name; new name for Ostrea jacobaea Rochebrune, 1895].
- Lopha hyotis notina Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [269].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.90525, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°51‘0‘S 151°13‘58.8‘E].
Generic Combinations
- Lopha hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [269] - Pycnodonta hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Ranson, G 1941. Les espèces actuelles et fossiles du genre Pycnodonta F. de W. – I. Pycnodonta hyotis L. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 13: 82-92 - Pycnodonte hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Thomson, J.M. 1954. The genera of oysters and the Australian species. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5(1): 132-168 [159] - Hyotissa hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indian and Pacific Oceans as well as Caribbean, pseudo-populations in Hawaii. Subfossil in NSW near Sydney. One lot from Solitary Islands in Australian Museum Sydney mollusc collection
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Attached to rock, pylons, coral although sometimes detached and lying freely on sea bed
General References
Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [275, pl. 29, fig. 3]
Bieler R. , P.M. Mikkelsen, T. Lee & D. Ó Foighil 2004. Discovery of the Indo-Pacific oyster Hyotissa hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Florida Keys (Bivalvia : Gryphaeidae). Molluscan Research 24: 149-159
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [182, pl. 66, fig. 3]
Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [152-153, fig. 463]
Harry, H.W. 1981. Nominal species of living oysters proposed during the last fifty years. The Veliger 24(1): 39-45 [43] (author notes that Ostrea procles is a probable synonym of Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819), in contrast to Thomson (1954) who place the name in synonymy of Hyotissa hyotis. The synonymies of both taxa need further substanciation and clarity. A logical consequence of Harry placing O. procles in the synonymy of H. numisma is that the preoccupied name Ostrea cerata Hedley, 1906 (not Ostrea cerata Sowerby, 1871) that O. procles replaced follows suit)
Harry, H.W. 1985. Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28(2): 121-158 [130, figs 7-11]
Kirkendale, L., Lee, T., Baker, P. & ÓFoighil, D. 2004. Oysters of the Conch Republic (Florida Keys): a molecular phylogenetic study of Parahyotissa mcginty, Teskeyostrea weberi and Ostreola equestris. Malacologia 46(2): 309-326
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [130, fig. 322]
Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [158]
Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [89]
Paulay, G. 1996. New records and synonymies of Hawaiian bivalves (Mollusca). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 45: 18-29 [24]
Tëmkin, I. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(342): 1-28 [4, figs 2, 5, 6, 8, 10]
Thomson, J.M. 1954. The genera of oysters and the Australian species. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5(1): 132-168 [159-160, pl. 10, figs 2-4, pl. 11, figs 1-3]
Torigoe, K. 2004. Oysters in the world. Part 2. Systematic description of the Recent oysters. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 3(3): 1-63, pls I-XIII, index (1-9) [1-2, pl. 1, figs 1a-1d]
Common Name References
Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [152] (Giant Coxcomb Oyster)
Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [46, pl. 47F] (Honeycomb Oyster)
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 | 12-Sep-2013 | MODIFIED | Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) |
| 07-Jan-2011 | MODIFIED |