Rock oyster

Genus of bivalves

Rock oyster
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Ostreida
Superfamily: Ostreoidea
Family: Ostreidae
Genus: Saccostrea
Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920
Type species
Ostrea saccellus
Dujardin, 1837
Synonyms[1]
  • Ostrea (Saccostrea) Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920
  • Parastriostrea Harry, 1985
  • Saxostrea Iredale, 1936

Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus Saccostrea, belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae.[1]

The best-known species is the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata).

Species

The World Register of Marine Species lists these species:[1]

  • 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 (Iredale & 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

  1. ^ a b c 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
  • 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.
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