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

Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Ostrea (Saccostrea) Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920 synonym
Saxostrea Iredale, 1936 synonym

Children

Saccostrea cuccullata (Born, 1778)
Saccostrea glomerata (A. Gould, 1850)

Literature

additional source

Salvi D. & Mariottini P. (2017 [nomenclatural availability: 2016]). Molecular taxonomy in 2D: a novel ITS2 rRNA sequence-structure approach guides the description of the oysters' subfamily Saccostreinae and the genus Magallana (Bivalvia: Ostreidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(2): 263-276.

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. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. 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:138300

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2024-02-10 by Bruce Marshall

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