Rock oysters are
true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily
Saccostreinae of the family
Ostreidae .
[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'', is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ ...
(''Saccostrea glomerata'').
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists these species:
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Saccostrea circumsuta
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(Gould, 1850)
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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.
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(Born, 1778) – hooded oyster
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Saccostrea echinata
''Saccostrea echinata'', commonly known as the tropical black-lip rock oyster, blacklip rock oyster, Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)licence. blacklip oyster, ( ...
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(Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) – tropical black-lip rock oyster
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Saccostrea glomerata
''Saccostrea glomerata'', is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ ...
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(Gould, 1850) - Sydney rock oyster
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Saccostrea kegaki
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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Torigoe & Inaba, 1981
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Saccostrea malabonensis
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(Faustino, 1932) – Philippine hooded oyster (''talabang kukong kabayo'')
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Saccostrea mordoides
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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Z.-M. Cui, L.-S. Hu, C. Li, Z. Zhang, X.-M. Guo & H.-Y. Wang, 2021
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Saccostrea palmula
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(Carpenter, 1857)
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Saccostrea saccellus
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(Dujardin, 1837)
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Saccostrea scyphophilla
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(Peron & Lesueur, 1807)
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Saccostrea spathulata
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(Lamarck, 1819)
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Saccostrea subtrigona
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(G.B. Sowerby II, 1871)
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Saccostrea virleti
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(Deshayes, 1835)
;Synonyms:
* ''Saccostrea commercialis''
(Iredale & Roughley, 1933): synonym of ''
Saccostrea glomerata
''Saccostrea glomerata'', is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ ...
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(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
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
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(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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