Species Ostrea angasi Sowerby, 1871
Common Mud Oyster, Mud Oyster, Port Lincoln Oyster, Southern Flat Oyster, Stewart Island Oyster, Tasmanian Flat Oyster
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Ostrea angassi Sowerby, G.B. 1871. Monograph of the genus Ostraea. pls 1, 6-33 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 18. [pl. 13, fig. 27] [the original spelling of the species has not been followed subsequently, even the first citing by Tate (1887:110) listing it as Ostrea angasi. In the index of Sowerby (1871) the species is spelled Ostrea angasii].
Type data:
Status unknown, Port Jackson, NSW, Australia. - Ostrea rutipina Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. Census; with brief descriptions of the marine shells of Tasmania and the adjacent islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1877: 26-57 [Date published 14 Jun] [56] [junior homonym; not Ostrea rutupina Jeffreys, 1864].
Type data:
Status unknown, Tasmania.
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Ostrea (Eostrea) angasi Sowerby, 1871. —
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [132] - Ostrea sinuata Lamarck, 1819 [misidentification]. —
Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [191]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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 Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Generally attached to rock or debris to about 200 m
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. [273, fig. 1, text-fig. 67] (as Ostrea sinuata)
Beu, A.G. 2006. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to recent Bivalves. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 36(4): 151-338 [210]
Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [30, pl. 63]
Cotton, B.C. 1957. Records of uncommon southern Australian Mollusca. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 13(1): 117-130 [129] (as Ostrea sinuata)
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] [84-85, figs 71, 72] (as Ostrea sinuata)
Hurwood, D.A., M.P. Heasman & P.B. Mather 2005. Gene flow, colonisation and demographic history of the flat oyster Ostrea angasi. Marine and Freshwater Research 56: 1099-1106
Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [191]
Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [269] (O. angasi assumed extinct)
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [12]
Kenchington, E., Bird, C.J., Osborne, J. & Reith, M. 2002. Novel repeat elements in the nuclear ribosomal RNA operon of the flat oyster Ostrea edulis C. Linneaus, 1758 and O. angasi Sowerby, 1871. Journal of Shellfish Research 21: 697-705 (concludes that Ostrea angasi and Ostrea edulis are conspecific. The flow on effects of this taxonomic concept needs to be addressed)
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. [132]
Li, X.X. & Havenhand, J.N. 1997. Karyotype, nucleolus organiser regions and constitutive heterochromatin in Ostrea angas (Molluscae: Bivalvia): evidence of taxonomic relationships within the Ostreidae. Marine Biology 127(3): 443-448
Ludbrook, N.H. 1984. Quaternary molluscs of South Australia. South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, Handbook 9: 1-327 [167, figs 40b, 71a]
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [310-312, fig. 353]
Oliver, W.R.B. 1923. Notes on New Zealand pelecypods. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 15(4): 179-188 [156]
Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1904. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 17(1): 220-266 [266]
Tate, R. 1887. A revision of the Recent lamellibranch and palliobranch Mollusca of South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 76-111 [110]
Thomson, J.M. 1954. The genera of oysters and the Australian species. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5(1): 132-168 [143-145, pl. 1, figs 1-3]
Wang, Y. & Guo, X. 2008. ITS length polymorphism in oysters and ITS use in species identification. Journal of Shellfish Research 27(3): 489-493
Common Name References
Arakawa, K.Y. 1990. Commercially important species of oysters in the world. Marine Behaviour and Physiology 17: 1-13 [1] (Tasmanian Flat Oyster)
Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [31, pl. 63] (Mud Oyster)
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [310] (Common Mud Oyster)
Thomson, J.M. 1954. The genera of oysters and the Australian species. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5(1): 132-168 [144] (Port Lincoln Oyster, Stewart Island 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. 47A] (Southern Flat 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 | 01-Feb-2011 | MOVED | Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) |
| 07-Jan-2011 | MODIFIED |