BeRMS taxon details
Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)
AphiaID: 140656
AphiaID: 140656
| Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Pteriomorphia > Ostreoida > Ostreoidea > Ostreidae > Crassostreinae > Crassostrea |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Crassostrea Sacco, 1897 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Thunberg C. P. (1793). Tekning och Beskrifning på en stor Ostronsort ifrån Japan. Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar, 14(4-6): 140-142, 1 pl, available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=tMM4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 [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] 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: 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: Hedgecock D., Li G., Hubert S., Bucklin K. & Ribes V. 2003. Widespread null alleles and poor cross-species amplification of microsatellite dna loci cloned from the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas. Journal of Shellfish Research, 23(2): 379-385. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3063290 [details] additional source: Yu Z., Kong X. Zhang L., Guo X. & Xiang J. 2003. Taxonomic status of four Crassostrea oysters from China as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Journal of Shellfish Research, 22(1): 31-38. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3105572 [details] redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Atlantic [details] Atlantic Europe [details] Baltic sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Bizerte Lagoon [details] Black Sea [details] British Isles [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Elbe [details] Europe [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] German Bight [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Gabès [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Koksijde [details] Malta [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Adriatic [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North Sea [details] Oosterschelde [details] Sas van Goes [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Zeebrugge [details] Zeeland [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Macrochiron fucicolum Brady, 1872 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mytilicola intestinalis Steuer, 1902 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mytilicola orientalis Mori, 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Myicola ostreae Hoshina & Sugiura, 1953 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Modiolicola bifida Tanaka, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Ostrincola similis Lin & Ho, 1999 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mytilicola orientalis Mori, 1935 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Crassostrea gigas Global invasive species database - Crassostrea gigas Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (49 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (79 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (247047 nucleotides; 27878 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140656 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140656 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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