Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists these species: * ''Saccostrea circumsuta'' (Gould, 1850) * ''Saccostrea cucullata'' (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'' (Tom Iredale, Iredale & Theodore Roughley, Roughley, 1933): synonym of ''Saccostrea glomerata'' (Gould, 1850) * ''Saccostrea cucullata'' [sic]: 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