Genus Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920

Museums

Regional Maps

• Saccostrea Dollfus, G.F. & P. Dauzenberg 1920. Conchyliologie du Miocène moyen du Bassin de la Loire. I: Pélécypodes. Société Geologique de France, Mémoires, Paléontologie 20(3): 379-500, pls 34-51 [471].

  Type species:

   Ostrea saccellus Dujardin, 1837 by monotypy.
• Saxostrea Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [269].

  Type species:

   Ostrea commercialis Iredale & Roughley, 1933 by monotypy.
• Striostrea Vyalov, O.S. 1936. Sur la classification des huitres. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 1: 17-20 [17].

  Type species:

   Ostrea (Striostrea) procellosa Lamy, 1929 (Valenciennes MS) by original designation.
• Parastriostrea Harry, H.W. 1985. Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28(2): 121-158 [151].

  Type species:

   Ostrea mytiloides Lamarck, 1819 by original designation.

 

Introduction

Saccostrea in Australia is in dire need of a full morphological as well as molecular assessment. The lastest casual assessments of the Australian taxa (Huber 2010; Torigoe 2004) state that S. cucullata does not exist in the Indo-Pacific. Literature records of S. cucullata could refer to any one of the Saccostrea species listed herein.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal in tropical climates

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

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

Buroker, N.E., W.K. Hershberger & K.K. Chew 1979. Population genetics of the family Ostreidae. II. Insterspeciic studies of the genera Crassostrea and Saccostrea. Marine Biology 54(2): 171-184

Bussarawit, S., Gravlund, P., Glenner, H. & Rasmussen, A.R. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of Thai oyster (Ostreidae) based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial 16S rDNA gene. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 67: 1-9

Dinamani, P. 1976. The morphology of the larval shell of Saccostrea glomerata (Gould, 1850) and a comparative study of the larval shell in the genus Saccostrea Sacco, 1897 (Ostreidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 42: 95-107

Harry, H.W. 1985. Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28(2): 121-158 [150]

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. [610-612]

Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [269] (as Saxostrea)

Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [397]

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

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]

Torigoe, K. 1981. Oysters in Japan. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University 29(2): 291-419 [306]

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) [22]

 

Common Name References

Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [269] (Rock Oysters)

 

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)
		06-Jan-2011	MODIFIED