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Ostrea stentina var. prepratxi Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1887; ... Ostrea stentina is a species of oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, ...
Ostrea lurida, common name the Olympia oyster, after Olympia, Washington in the Puget Sound area, is a species of small, edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae. This species occurs on the northern Pacific coast of North America .
Ostrea is a genus of edible oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters. Fossil valves of Ostrea forskali from Pliocene of Italy.
Ostrea equestris, commonly known as the crested oyster or horse oyster, [1] is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Ostreidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North and South America, ranging from Virginia to Patagonia .
After the native oyster beds of Northern California and Oregon had been depleted, sailing ships began to travel to Willapa Bay which contained vast acreages of native oysters that had been allowed to grow for many years. Between the years 1851-1915 it is estimated that European settlers had removed more than 5 billion individual oysters from ...
Crassostrea is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) [2] containing some of the most important oysters used for food. The genus was recent split in WoRMS , following the DNA-based phylogenies of Salvi et al. (2014 and 2017).
The cockscomb oyster has a shell reaching a maximum diameter of about 20.5 cm, commonly 10 cm. It has a variable coloration, dark to light purple, and it is a thick, strongly ribbed, and slightly inequivalve shell. The shell inside is porcelaneous, usually purplish-brown or whitish in colour.
The southern mud oyster, Australian flat oyster, native flat oyster, native mud oyster, or angasi oyster (Ostrea angasi), is endemic to southern Australia, ranging from Western Australia to southeast New South Wales and around Tasmania. Ostrea angasi superficially resembles Ostrea edulis and both species may be referred to with the name "flat ...