Crassostrea

Crassostrea est genus familiae Ostreidarum, genus verarum ostrearum cibariarum maximi momenti.

Crassostrea gigantissima (Finch, 1824) fossile

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Animalia — Mollusca

Classis : Bivalvia 
Ordo : Ostreoida 
Familia : Ostreidae 
Genus : Crassostrea
(Sacco, 1897) 

   

Palaeontologia

145.5–0 m.a.: Cretaceum inferius > Recens

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Synonyma

*Ostrea (Crassostrea) Dall, 1909

Species

• Crassostrea (Sacco, 1897)
  • †Crassostrea alabamiensis (Lea 1833)
  • †Crassostrea ashleyi (Hertlein 1943) (syn. Ostrea arnoldi)
  • †Crassostrea cahobasensis (Pilsbry and Brown 1910)
  • Crassostrea chilensis (Philippi, 1845)
  • Crassostrea columbiensis (Hanley, 1846)
  • †Crassostrea contracta (Conrad 1865)
  • Crassostrea corteziensis (Hertlein, 1951)
  • †Crassostrea cucullaris (Lamarck 1819)
  • †Crassostrea cuebana Jung 1974
  • †Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim 1813)
  • †Crassostrea hatcheri (Ihering 1899)
  • Crassostrea iredalei (Sacco, 1932)
  • †Crassostrea kawauchidensis Tamura 1977
  • †Crassostrea patagonica (d'Orbigny 1842) (syn. Ostrea ferrarisi)
  • †Crassostrea raincourti (Deshayes 1858)
  • Crassostrea rhizophorae Guilding
  • †Crassostrea titan (Conrad 1853) (syn. Ostrea prior, O. andersoni)
  • †Crassostrea transitoria (Hupé 1854) (syn. Ostrea maxima)
  • Crassostrea tulipa
  • Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)

Bibliographia

De taxinomia

• B. L. Bayne et al., "The Proposed Dropping of the Genus Crassostrea for All Pacific Cupped Oysters and Its Replacement by a New Genus Magallana: A Dissenting View" in Journal of Shellfish Research vol. 36 (2017) pp. 545-547
• Daniele Salvi, Armando Macali, Paolo Mariottini, "Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics of the Bivalve Family Ostreidae Based on rRNA Sequence-Structure Models and Multilocus Species Tree" IN PLOS One (24 Septembris 2014)

Nexus externi

• Crassostrea in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
• Crassostrea apud The Paleobiology Database.

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