WoRMS taxon details
Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 140657
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] | |||||||||||||
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| 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] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140657 | |||||||||||||
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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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