WoRMS taxon details
Ostrea virginica Gmelin, 1791
AphiaID: 207797
AphiaID: 207797
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Ostreoida (Order) > Ostreoidea (Superfamily) > Ostreidae (Family) > Ostreinae (Subfamily) > Ostrea (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Crassostrea Sacco, 1897 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ostrea Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] 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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Ostrea virginica var. lusitanica Osorio, 1916 accepted as Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck, 1819) | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Madagascar (not certain) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Ostrincola gracilis Wilson C.B., 1944 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (315 publications) To PESI | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207797 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Ostrea virginica Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207797 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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