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  2. Pacific oyster - Wikipedia

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    Pacific oyster aquaculture production has grown from an export value of $11 million in 1986 to $32 million in 2006. [31] In 2006, the 23 Pacific oyster farms throughout New Zealand covered a total of 750 hectares of marine space and produced 2,800 tonnes of product per year. [29] Annual production is now between about 3,300 and 4,000 tonnes. [30]

  3. Giant honeycomb oyster - Wikipedia

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    The giant honeycomb oyster ( Hyotissa hyotis) is a very large saltwater oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk . Species in this family are known as honeycomb oysters or "foam oysters" because under magnification, their shell structure is foam-like. Like most bivalves, the giant honeycomb oyster is a filter feeder. shallow in Mayotte.

  4. Pinctada maxima - Wikipedia

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    Pinctada maxima. Pinctada maxima is a species of pearl oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae, the pearl oysters. There are two different color varieties: the Gold-lipped oyster and the Silver-lipped oyster. These bivalves are the largest pearl oysters in the world. They have a very strong inner shell layer composed of nacre ...

  5. Oyster - Wikipedia

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    Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many, but not all oysters, are in the superfamily Ostreoidea.

  6. Eastern oyster - Wikipedia

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    Eastern oyster. The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)—also called the Atlantic oyster, American oyster, or East Coast oyster —is a species of true oyster native to eastern North and South America. Other names in local or culinary use include the Wellfleet oyster, [3] Virginia oyster, Malpeque oyster, Blue Point oyster, Chesapeake Bay ...

  7. Crassostrea - Wikipedia

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    Crassostrea is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) 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). Pacific species were moved to a new genus Magallana. C. zhanjiangensis became Talonostrea zhanjiangensis. [2]

  8. Crassostrea ingens - Wikipedia

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    Description. Crassostrea ingens is a giant fossil oyster. It has a shell reaching a height of 200 millimetres (7.9 in) to over 300 millimetres (12 in). This shell is biconvex. The left valve is thick and deep, with inflation of 60 millimetres (2.4 in) to over 80 millimetres (3.1 in); interior cavity depth 30 millimetres (1.2 in) to over 40 ...

  9. Pinctada fucata - Wikipedia

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    Pinctada martensii fucata (Gould, 1850) Pinctada fucata, the Akoya pearl oyster (阿古屋貝), is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae, the pearl oysters. Some authorities classify this oyster as Pinctada fucata martensii (Gould, 1850). [1] It is native to shallow waters in the Indo-Pacific region and is used in the ...

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