African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Ostreinae Rafinesque, 1815

AphiaID

510735 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:510735)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subfamily

Parent

Ostreidae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Ostreidae Rafinesque, 1815

Synonymised names

Lophinae Vialov, 1936 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Genus Alectryonella Sacco, 1897
Genus Dendostrea Swainson, 1835
Genus Lopha Röding, 1798
Genus Nanostrea Harry, 1985
Genus Ostrea Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Planostrea Harry, 1985
Genus Dendrostrea [sic] accepted as Dendostrea Swainson, 1835 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, misspelling by Woodward (1851))
Genus Ostraea [sic] accepted as Ostrea Linnaeus, 1758 (incorrect subsequent spelling by G.B. Sowerby II (1871) and others)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Ostreidae Rafinesque, 1815) Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN
page(s): 148; note: Original spelling Ostreacia. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ostreinae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=510735 on 2026-05-16

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Ostreinae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=510735 on 2026-05-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-31 09:46:09Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2011-10-30 10:35:41Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-10-17 13:10:28Z

changed

Schneider, Simon

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original description (of Ostreidae Rafinesque, 1815) Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN
page(s): 148; note: Original spelling Ostreacia. [details]

original description (of Lophinae Vialov, 1936) Vialov O. (1936). Sur la classification des huîtres. Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS. ser. 2, 4(1): 17-20.
page(s): 19 [details]

taxonomy source Zaruba, B. (1996). Ustrice/Oysters. Katalog rodových a podrodových taxonů podřádu Ostreina (Bivalvia)/Catalogue of the supraspecific taxa of the suborder Ostreina (Bivalvia). 64 pp., 24 pls. Nakladatelstvi Vesmir; Narodni museum v Praze. Prague [in Czech with English summary]. , available online at http://mmtk.ginras.ru/pdf/zaruba1996_ustrice.pdf [details] Available for editors

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]

basis of record Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 198 [details]

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