Crassostrea
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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 ingens (Zittel 1864)
- 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.
