Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Ostreida > Superfamily Ostreoidea > Family Ostreidae > Subfamily Crassostreinae

Crassostrea Sacco, 1897

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Gryphaea Lamarck, 1801 sensu Ranson, 1955 synonym
Ostrea (Crassostrea) Sacco, 1897 synonym

Children

Crassostrea cucullaris (Lamarck, 1819)
Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)

Literature

basis of record

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.

additional source

Sacco, F. (1897). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXIII. Pelecypoda (Ostreidae, Anomiidae e Dimyidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 66 pp., 11 pl.

redescription

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Crassostrea Sacco, 1897. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138297

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2019-10-09 by Philippe Bouchet

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