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Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 140657

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Ostreoida (Order) > Ostreoidea (Superfamily) > Ostreidae (Family) > Crassostreinae (Subfamily) > Crassostrea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Crassostrea Sacco, 1897
Synonymised
taxa
  Dioeciostrea americana Orton, 1928
Ostrea borealis Lamarck, 1819
Ostrea canadensis Lamarck, 1819
Ostrea floridensis G. B. Sowerby II, 1871
Ostrea procyon Holmes, 1858
Ostrea reniformis G. B. Sowerby II, 1871
Ostrea rostrata G. B. Sowerby II, 1871
Ostrea triangularis Holmes, 1856
Ostrea virginiana Röding, 1798
Ostrea virginica Gmelin, 1791
Sources  basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details]

basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch Amerikaanse oester  [details]
English American oyster  [details]
English eastern oyster  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic Europe [details]
Baltic sea [details]
Belize [details]
Belt Sea [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
Europe [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
German Bight [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Madagascar (not certain) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mexico [details]
North Adriatic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Ostrincola clavator Humes, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ostrincola gracilis Wilson C.B., 1944 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudomyicola glabra Pearse, 1947 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (128 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (137 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets
To FAO Species fact sheets
To GenBank (15010 nucleotides; 395 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: reaches 5 to 15 cm in size [details]

Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle valley), Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); West Indies [details]

Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Importance: edible oyster [details]

Reproduction: separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details]
Images 
Crassostrea virginica
Crassostrea virginica
added on 2011-03-03 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Roberta Miller ()
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Crassostrea virginica
Crassostrea virginica
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2013-04-18 22:50:27

Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)Specimen from New Jersey
Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)
Specimen from New Jersey
added on 2013-04-18 - author: Gofas, Serge
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2013-04-18 22:50:05
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140657
Taxonomic
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140657 on 2013-05-24
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