BeRMS taxon details

Ostreidae Rafinesque, 1815 
AphiaID: 215

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Pteriomorphia > Ostreoida > Ostreoidea
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Ostreoidea
Sources  additional source: Harry H. W. (1985). Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28: 121-158 [details]

additional source: Inaba A. & K. Torigoe (2004) Oysters in the world. Part 2. Systematic description of the Recent oysters. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 3: 63 + 9 pp., 13 pls. [details]

additional source: Stenzel H.B., 1971. Oysters. In, Moore, R.C. (Ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, pt. N, vol. 3, Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, pp. N953–N1224. [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]

taxonomy source: Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch oesters  [details]
English oysters  [details]
French ostréidés  [details]
Swedish ostron  [details]
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taxa
[hide all]		 Subfamily Crassostreinae Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
  » Genus Crassostrea Sacco, 1897
  » Species Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)
Subfamily Ostreinae Rafinesque, 1815
  » Genus Ostrea Linnaeus, 1758
  » Species Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
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To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2006-01-04 12:34:08Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-10-30 10:35:41Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Ostreidae. 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=215 on 2013-05-25
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