WoRMS taxon details
Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck, 1819)
AphiaID: 146900
AphiaID: 146900
| 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 |
Gryphaea angulata Lamarck, 1819 (original combination) Ostrea angulata (Lamarck, 1819) Ostrea complanata Fenaux, 1944 Ostrea virginica var. lusitanica Osorio, 1916 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Huvet A., Fabioux C., Mccombie H., Lapegue S & Boudry P. 2004. Natural hybridization between genetically differentiated populations of Crassostrea gigas and C. angulata highlighted by sequence variation in flanking regions of a microsatellite locus. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 272: 141-152., available online at http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3355/ [details] additional source: Lapegue S., Batista F.M., Heurtebise S., Yu Z. & Boudry P. 2004. Evidence for the presence of the Portuguese oyster, Crassostrea angulata, in northern China. Journal of Shellfish Research, 23(3): 759-763. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3062368 [details] additional source: Batista F., Leitão A., Huvet A., Lapegue S., Heurtebise S. & Boudry P. 2005. The taxonomic status and origin of the Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck, 1819). in:Proceedings, 1st International Oyster Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, July 13-14. Oyster Research Institute News, 18: 6pp. unpaginated., available online at http://www.worldoyster.org/proceeding_pdf/news_18-1e.pdf [details] source of synonymy: Menzel R.W. (1974). Portuguese and Japanese oysters are the same species. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 31: 453-456 [details] basis of record (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic Europe [details] German Bight [details] Zeebrugge [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) To GenBank (80991 nucleotides; 144 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Nomenclature: ICZN opinion 388: placed on official list of specific names [details] Synonymy: Until recently Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea angulata were taken as two different species. According to Menzel (1974), Mathers et al. (1974), Buroker et al. (1979) and Thirot-Quievreux (1984) this is no longer tenable. [details] Taxonomy: The Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata and the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas were described as distinct species with widely separated geographical origins - southwestern Europe and Japan respectively. In the 1970's C. gigas was introduced to the Atlantic coast of France in order to restore oyster farming affected by a disease of C. angulata, and it became evident that the two species could hybridize (Menzel, 1974, Huvet et al., 2004) and therefore were treated as synonyms (Huber, 2010). During the recent years, however, several genetic studies based on mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite data have provided evidence that the two taxa are genetically distinct although closely related (see overview in Batista et al. 2005). Particularly, an average of 2.3% difference in CO1 sequence suggests that populations of C. gigas and C. angulata may have diverged several hundred thousand years ago (Hedgecock et al., 2004). Studies involving microsatellite markers have shown that there are low but clear genetic differences between the two taxons. From all recent studies, it seems clear that the European C. angulata was introduced in the XVI or XVIIth century from Taiwan, and can be recognized genetically from C. gigas introduced later from Japan. Nevertheless the relationship of both taxa in intermediate locations remains to be elucidated. Lapègue et al. (2004) reported characteristic haplotypes of both C. gigas and C. angulata occurred in a population from northern China locally known as C. talienwhanensis Crosse, 1862; this could either mean that both species are distinct but overlap ranges, or that all those haplotypes are to be found in a single, geographically variable species. Considering this state of the art, C. angulata and C. gigas are listed here separately but qualified as very closely related and still possibly conspecific. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146900 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck, 1819). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146900 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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