Rock oysters are
true oyster
The Ostreidae, the true oysters, include most species of molluscs commonly consumed as oysters. Pearl oysters are not true oysters, and belong to the order Pteriida.
Like scallops, true oysters have a central adductor muscle, which means the s ...
s of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily
Saccostreinae of the family
Ostreidae
The Ostreidae, the true oysters, include most species of molluscs commonly consumed as oysters. Pearl oysters are not true oysters, and belong to the order Pteriida.
Like scallops, true oysters have a central adductor muscle, which means the ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138300 on 2022-04-27]
The best-known species is the
Sydney rock oyster (''Saccostrea glomerata'').
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists these species:
* ''
Saccostrea circumsuta''
(Gould, 1850)
* ''
Saccostrea cucullata
''Saccostrea cucullata'', the hooded oyster or Natal rock oyster, is a species of rock oyster found mainly in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
It was first described by the Czech mineralogist, metallurgist, and malacologist Ignaz von Born in 1778.
De ...
''
(Born, 1778) – hooded oyster
* ''
Saccostrea echinata''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) – tropical black-lip rock oyster
* ''
Saccostrea glomerata''
(Gould, 1850) - Sydney rock oyster
* ''
Saccostrea kegaki''
Torigoe & Inaba, 1981
* ''
Saccostrea malabonensis''
(Faustino, 1932) – Philippine hooded oyster (''talabang kukong kabayo'')
* ''
Saccostrea mordoides''
Z.-M. Cui, L.-S. Hu, C. Li, Z. Zhang, X.-M. Guo & H.-Y. Wang, 2021
* ''
Saccostrea palmula''
(Carpenter, 1857)
* † ''
Saccostrea saccellus''
(Dujardin, 1837)
* ''
Saccostrea scyphophilla''
(Peron & Lesueur, 1807)
* ''
Saccostrea spathulata''
(Lamarck, 1819)
* ''
Saccostrea subtrigona''
(G.B. Sowerby II, 1871)
* † ''
Saccostrea virleti''
(Deshayes, 1835)
;Synonyms:
* ''Saccostrea commercialis''
(Iredale & Roughley, 1933): synonym of ''
Saccostrea glomerata''
(Gould, 1850)
* ''Saccostrea cucullata''
ic synonym of ''Saccostrea cuccullata''
(Born, 1778) (misspelling)
* ''Saccostrea forskahlii''
(Gmelin, 1791): synonym of ''Saccostrea cuccullata''
(Born, 1778)
* ''Saccostrea margaritacea''
(Lamarck, 1819): synonym of ''Striostrea margaritacea''
(Lamarck, 1819)
* ''Saccostrea mordax''
(Gould, 1850): synonym of ''Saccostrea scyphophilla''
(Peron & Lesueur, 1807)
* ''Saccostrea tubulifera''
(Dall, 1914): synonym of ''
Saccostrea palmula''
(Carpenter, 1857)
References
* Dollfus, G.F. & Dautzenberg, P. (1920). Conchyliologie du Miocène moyen du Bassin de la Loire. 1re Partie: Pélécypodes (suite et fin). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Paléontologie. 22(2-4): 379-500, pls 34-51.
* 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.
External links
Harry, H.W. (1985). Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae. The Veliger. 28(2): 121-158. 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.]
Saccostrea,
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