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Species Saccostrea scyphophilla (Peron & Lesueur, 1807)

Biting Oyster, Coral Rock Oyster


Compiler and date details

May 2017 - Burghardt, I.

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to hard substrates

 

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Saccostrea scyphophilla. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506735 (Accessed on 2017-05-24)

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. (see CD for earlier name for S. mordax; Ostrea mordax is considered to be a synonym of Ostrea scyphophilla Peron & Lesueur 1807)

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 (indicate Australian distribution)

Lam, K. & Morton, B. 2009. Oysters (Bivalvia: Ostraeidae and Gryphaeidae) recorded from Malaysia and Singapore. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57(2): 481-494

Thomson, J.M. 1954. The genera of oysters and the Australian species. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5(1): 132-168 [154, pl. 7, figs 1, 2] (as Crassostrea amasa; p. 157, pl. 8, fig. 3 as Crassostrea tuberculata)

Torigoe, K. 1981. Oysters in Japan. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University 29(2): 291-419 [328-329] (Japanese focussed bibliography and synonymy)

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) [25-26, pl. V, figs 4a-d]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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
OSTREOIDEA 03-Feb-2011 ADDED Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)