Ostrea

Ostrea
Temporal range: Permian - Recent
A lower valve (the attachment valve) of a shell of Ostrea edulis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Pteriomorphia
Order: Ostreoida
Suborder: Ostreina
Superfamily: Ostreoidea
Family: Ostreidae
Subfamily: Ostreinae
Genus: Ostrea
(Linnaeus, 1758)
species

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Ostrea is a genus of edible oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters.

Fossil valves of Ostrea forskali from Pliocene of Italy

Fossil records

This genus is very ancient. It is known in the fossil records from the Permian to the Quaternary (age range: from 259 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossil shells of these molluscs can be found all over the world. Genus Ostrea includes about 150 extinct species.[1][2]

History

At least one species within this genus, Ostrea lurida, has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine taxon exploited by the Native American Chumash people as a food source.[3]

Species

Species in the genus Ostrea include:[1][4]

  • O. albertensisRussell & Landes 1937
  • O. angasi Sowerby 1846- Southern mud oyster or Native flat oyster
  • O. angulataSowerby 1840
  • O. angustaDeshayes 1824
  • O. anomialisLamarck 1819
  • O. antarcticaZinsmeister 1984
  • O. arenicolaTate 1886
  • O. aupouria Dinamani 1981
  • O. beloitiLogan 1899
  • O. bicolorHanley 1854
  • O. blackensisStephenson 1923
  • O. brongniartiBronn 1856
  • O. californica Mareon 1858
  • O. carolinensisConrad 1832
  • O. castellobrancoiMaury 1936
  • O. chilensis Philippi 1844
  • O. cochlearPoli 1795
  • O. compressirostraSay 1824
  • O. conchaphila Carpenter 1857- Olympia oyster
  • O. costaricensisOlsson 1922
  • O. crenulimarginataGabb 1860
  • O. cristata Born 1778
  • O. cubitusDeshayes 1832
  • O. cumingiana Dunker 1846
  • O. cynthiaeMaury 1912
  • O. democracianaHodson et al. 1927
  • O. denselamellosa Lischke, 1869)
  • O. dorsalisAzzaroli 1958
  • O. edulis Linnaeus 1758- Edible oyster or Belon oyster
  • O. edwilsoniStoyanow 1949
  • O. eorivularisOyama & Mizuno 1958
  • O. equestris (Say, 1834)- Crested oyster
  • O. ericiHertlein 1929
  • O. flavicans Linnaeus 1758
  • O. forskaliChemnitz 1785
  • O. fraasiMayer-Eymar 1888
  • O. frondosade Serres 1829
  • O. gajensisVredenburg 1928
  • O. gingensisSchlotheim 1813
  • O. glabra Linnaeus 1758
  • O. golfotristensisMaury 1912
  • O. haleyiHertlein 1933
  • O. hippopusTate 1886
  • O. hyotidoideaTate 1899
  • O. imbricataLamarck 1819
  • O. incisaMartin 1883
  • O. invalidaWhite 1887
  • O. iridescens Gray 1854
  • O. jogjacartensisMartin 1914
  • O. khamirensisCox 1936
  • O. latimarginataVredenburg 1908
  • O. longirostrisLamarck 1806
  • O. ludensisDeshayes 1861
  • O. luridaCarpenter 1864
  • O. lutariaHutton 1885
  • O. maculosa Forskål 1775
  • O. manubriataTate 1887
  • O. marginidentataWood 1861
  • O. materculade Verneuil 1845
  • O. mauricensisGabb 1860
  • O. megadon (Hanley, 1846)
  • O. mesentericaMorton 1834
  • O. messorMaury 1925
  • O. minbuensisCotter 1923
  • O. minerensisRussell & Landes 1937
  • O. minuta Linnaeus 1758
  • O. miradorensisOlsson 1931
  • O. monetalisMartin 1931
  • O. negritensisOlsson 1928
  • O. normalisGardner 1926
  • O. obliterata Linnaeus 1758
  • O. pangadiensisHislop 1859
  • O. paracasensisRivera 1957
  • O. parasiticaGmelin 1791
  • O. paroxisLesueur 1829
  • O. parrensisVega et al. 1999
  • O. pejerreyensisRivera 1957
  • O. pellucens Linnaeus 1758
  • O. pesfelis Linnaeus 1758
  • O. petrosaFuchs 1879
  • O. peytoniRichards 1947
  • O. pileosimilisMartin 1931
  • O. plicatula Gmelin 1791
  • O. portoricoensisHubbard 1920
  • O. princepsWoods 1850
  • O. procyonisMaury 1924
  • O. pronaWood 1861
  • O. protoimbricataVredenburg 1928
  • O. pseudocrassissimaFuchs 1878
  • O. pseudodigitalinaFuchs 1879
  • O. pseudorissensisVredenburg 1928
  • O. pulaskensisHarris 1892
  • O. radula Linnaeus1758
  • O. ravenelianaTuomey & Holmes 1855
  • O. resupinataDeshayes 1858
  • O. retusa Sowerby 1871
  • O. russelliRussell & Landes 1937
  • O. samanensisOlsson 1928
  • O. sanguinea Linnaeus 1758
  • O. saxitonianaMcLearn 1929
  • O. seymourensisZinsmeister 1984
  • O. soleniscusMeek 1893
  • O. stentina Payraudeau, 1826
  • O. striatula Linnaeus 1758
  • O. sturtianaTate 1886
  • O. subangulatad'Orbigny 1852
  • O. submissaDeshayes 1864
  • O. subradiosaBohm 1926
  • O. superficialis Forskål 1775
  • O. tacalensisHodson et al. 1927
  • O. taylorianaGabb 1866
  • O. thalassoklustaMaury 1912
  • O. tridacnaeformis Cox 1927
  • O. turkestanensisRomanovski 1880
  • O. uncintaLamarck 1806
  • O. ungulataNyst 1843
  • O. ventilabrumGoldfuss 1826
  • O. vestitaFuchs 1883
  • O. wiedenmayeriHodson et al. 1927
  • O. wollastoniFinlay 1927

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Fossilworks
  2. J.D. Dana (1996)
  3. C.M. Hogan, 2008
  4. WoRMS
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