Crassostrea
| Crassostrea Temporal range: 145.5–0Ma | |
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| Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Ostreoida |
| Family: | Ostreidae |
| Genus: | Crassostrea |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Crassostrea gigantissima (Finch, 1824) right valve interior (Eocene of Texas).
Crassostrea is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) containing the most important oysters used for food.
Species
- Crassostrea (Sacco 1897)[1]
- †Crassostrea alabamiensis (Lea 1833)
- Crassostrea amasa (Iredale 1939) (syn. Saccostrea scyphophilla)[1]
- Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck 1819) – Portuguese oyster
- Crassostrea ariakensis (Fujita 1913) – Suminoe oyster[1]
- †Crassostrea ashleyi (Hertlein 1943) (syn. Ostrea arnoldi)
- Crassostrea belcheri (G.B. Sowerby II 1871)[1]
- Crassostrea bilineata (Röding 1798)[1]
- Crassostrea brasiliana (Lamarck 1819) (syn. C. brasiliensis)[1]
- †Crassostrea cahobasensis (Pilsbry and Brown 1910)
- Crassostrea chilensis (Philippi 1845)
- Crassostrea columbiensis (Hanley 1846)[1]
- †Crassostrea contracta (Conrad 1865)
- Crassostrea corteziensis (Hertlein 1951)
- †Crassostrea cucullaris (Lamarck 1819)
- Crassostrea cucullata (Born) (syn. Saccostrea cucullata)[1]
- †Crassostrea cuebana (Jung 1974)
- Crassostrea dactylena (Iredale 1939)[1]
- Crassostrea echinata (Quoy & Gaimard 1835) (syn. Saccostrea echinata)[1]
- Crassostrea gasar (Dautzenberg 1891) – mangrove oyster[1]
- †Crassostrea gigantissima (Finch 1824) – Giant fossil oyster
- Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793) (syn. C. talienwhanensis) – Pacific oyster[1]
- Crassostrea glomerata (Gould 1850) – Auckland oyster
- †Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim 1813)
- †Crassostrea hatcheri (Ihering 1899)
- Crassostrea hongkongensis (Lam & Morton 2003)[1]
- Crassostrea iredalei (Sacco 1932) – Faustino
- †Crassostrea kawauchidensis (Tamura 1977)
- Crassostrea margaritacea (Lamarck 1819) (syn. Striostrea margaritacea)[1]
- Crassostrea nippona (Seki 1934)[1]
- Crassostrea paraibanensis (Singarajah 1980)[1]
- †Crassostrea patagonica (d'Orbigny 1842) (syn. Ostrea ferrarisi)
- †Crassostrea raincourti (Deshayes 1858)
- Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding 1828)[1]
- Crassostrea rivularis (Gould 1861)[1]
- Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya 1928) – Kumamoto oyster[1]
- †Crassostrea titan (Conrad 1853) (syn. Ostrea prior, O. andersoni)
- †Crassostrea transitoria (Hupé 1854) (syn. Ostrea maxima)
- Crassostrea tulipa (Lamarck 1819)[1]
- Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin 1791) – Eastern oyster[1]
Genetics
The genome of Crassostrea gigas has been recently sequenced [2] revealing an extensive set of genes that enable it to cope with environmental stresses.
References
- Crassostrea on britannica.com.
- The Paleobiology Database Crassostrea entry accessed on 29 April 2010.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 Taxon list for Crassostrea. World Register of Marine Species, accessed on 1 March 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Zhang, G.; Fang, X.; Guo, X.; Li, L.; Luo, R.; Xu, F.; Yang, P.; Zhang, L.; Wang, X.; Qi, H.; Xiong, Z.; Que, H.; Xie, Y.; Holland, P. W. H.; Paps, J.; Zhu, Y.; Wu, F.; Chen, Y.; Wang, J.; Peng, C.; Meng, J.; Yang, L.; Liu, J.; Wen, B.; Zhang, N.; Huang, Z.; Zhu, Q.; Feng, Y.; Mount, A.; Hedgecock, D. (2012). "The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation". Nature 490 (7418): 49–54. doi:10.1038/nature11413. PMID 22992520.
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