Jump to content

Ostrea

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Ostrea atherstonei)

Ostrea
Temporal range: Permian - Recent
A lower valve (the attachment valve) of a shell of Ostrea edulis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Ostreida
Superfamily: Ostreoidea
Family: Ostreidae
Genus: Ostrea
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Type species
Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Anodontostrea Suter, 1917
  • Conradostrea Ward & Blackwelder, 1987
  • Cryptostrea Harry, 1985
  • Eostrea Ihering, 1907
  • Lopha (Ostreola) Monterosato, 1884
  • Monoeciostrea Orton, 1928 (genus name unavailable)
  • Myrakeena Harry, 1985
  • Ostracites Picot de Lapeirouse, 1781
  • Ostraea [sic] (incorrect subsequent spelling by G.B. Sowerby II (1871) and others)
  • Ostrea (Anodontostrea) Suter, 1917
  • Ostrea (Bellostrea) Vialov, 1936 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Ostrea (Turkostrea) Vialov, 1936 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Ostreola Monterosato, 1884
  • Ostreum da Costa, 1776 (Unjustified emendation)
  • Tiostrea Chanley & Dinamani, 1980
  • Undulostrea Harry, 1985

Ostrea is a genus of edible oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters.

Fossil valves of Ostrea forskali from Pliocene of Italy

Fossil records

[edit]

This genus is very ancient. It is known in the fossil records from the Permian to the Quaternary (age range: from 259 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossil shells of these molluscs can be found all over the world. Genus Ostrea includes about 150 extinct species.[1][2]

History

[edit]

At least one species within this genus, Ostrea lurida, has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine taxon exploited by the Native American Chumash people as a food source.[3]

Species

[edit]

Species in the genus Ostrea include:[1][4]

Synonyms

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Fossilworks
  2. ^ J.D. Dana (1996)
  3. ^ C.M. Hogan, 2008
  4. ^ WoRMS
  5. ^ Roemer, F. (1849). Texas : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung und die physischen Verhältnisse des Landes nach eigener Beobachtung. A. Marcus.
  6. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ostrea atherstonei Newton, 1913". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  • Vialov O. (1936). Sur la classification des huîtres. Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS. ser. 2, 4(1): 17-20
  • James Dwight Dana (1996) Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History, American Book Co., 1088 pages
  • C.Michael Hogan (2008) Morro Creek, The Megalithic Portal, ed. by A. Burnham [1]
  • 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
[edit]