WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)

Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 140657

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Ostreoida (Order) > Ostreoidea (Superfamily) > Ostreidae (Family) > Crassostrea (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Crassostrea Sacco, 1897

Sources

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., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 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. [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]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	Amerikaanse oester	[details]
English	eastern oyster	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

Atlantic Europe [details]
Baltic sea [details]
Belt Sea [details]
Europe [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
German Bight [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North Adriatic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]

Links

To CLEMAM
To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets
To Barcode of Life (111 barcodes)
To ITIS

Notes

Diet: generally for group, planktonic and minute detrital food items through either suspension or deposit feeding [details]

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]

Edit
history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	Gofas, Serge

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Citation: Gofas, S. (2009). Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140657 on 2010-07-30

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