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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 .
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 ...
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.
The dredge oyster, [2] Bluff oyster [3] or Chilean oyster [4] (Ostrea chilensis), [5] is also known in Chile as ostra verde, [6] is a species of flat oyster. It is a marine bivalve mollusc of the family Ostreidae .
The Ostreidae, the true oysters, include most species of molluscs commonly consumed as oysters. Pearl oysters are not true oysters, and belong to the order Pteriida. Like scallops, true oysters have a central adductor muscle, which means the shell has a characteristic central scar marking its point of attachment. The shell tends to be irregular ...
Ostreoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of bivalve marine mollusc, sometimes simply identified as oysters, [1] containing two families. The ostreoids are characterized in part by the presence of a well developed axial rod. [2]
Ostrea (Crassostrea) Dall, 1909 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.