Crassostrea

Crassostrea
Crassostrea
Temporal range: 145.5–0 Ma
Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Ostreoida
Family: Ostreidae
Genus: Crassostrea
Species

See text.
Synonyms
  • Ostrea (Crassostrea) Dall, 1909

Crassostrea is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) containing the most important oysters used for food.

Species

  • Crassostrea (Sacco, 1897)
    • †Crassostrea alabamiensis (Lea 1833)
    • Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck 1819) - Portuguese oyster
    • Crassostrea ariakensis (Fujita, 1913) - Suminoe oyster or Chinese oyster
    • †Crassostrea ashleyi (Hertlein 1943) (syn. Ostrea arnoldi)
    • †Crassostrea cahobasensis (Pilsbry and Brown 1910)
    • Crassostrea chilensis (Philippi, 1845)
    • Crassostrea columbiensis (Hanley, 1846)
    • †Crassostrea contracta (Conrad 1865)
    • Crassostrea corteziensis (Hertlein, 1951)
    • †Crassostrea cucullaris (Lamarck 1819)
    • †Crassostrea cuebana Jung 1974
    • Crassostrea gasar - Mangrove oyster
    • Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) - Pacific oyster
    • Crassostrea glomerata (Gould, 1850) - Auckland oyster
    • †Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim 1813)
    • †Crassostrea hatcheri (Ihering 1899)
    • Crassostrea iredalei (Sacco, 1932) - Faustino
    • †Crassostrea kawauchidensis Tamura 1977
    • †Crassostrea patagonica (d'Orbigny 1842) (syn. Ostrea ferrarisi)
    • †Crassostrea raincourti (Deshayes 1858)
    • Crassostrea rhizophorae Guilding
    • †Crassostrea titan (Conrad 1853) (syn. Ostrea prior, O. andersoni)
    • †Crassostrea transitoria (Hupé 1854) (syn. Ostrea maxima)
    • Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) - Eastern oyster

References

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