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Crassostrea Sacco, 1897

Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)
Specimen from New Jersey

AphiaID

138297 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138297)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Crassostreinae Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979

Original name

Ostrea (Crassostrea) Sacco, 1897

Synonymised names

Crassostrea (Angustostrea) Vialov, 1936 † · alternative representation

Crassostrea (Cymbulostrea) Vialov, 1936 † · alternative representation

Ostrea (Crassostrea) Sacco, 1897 · unaccepted (original rank)

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Species Crassostrea aequatorialis (A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
Species Crassostrea antarctogigantea Stilwell, 2000 †
Species Crassostrea columbiensis (Hanley, 1846)
Species Crassostrea corteziensis (Hertlein, 1951)
Species Crassostrea cucullaris (Lamarck, 1819) †
Species Crassostrea cymbula (Lamarck, 1806) †
Species Crassostrea dorsata (J. De C. Sowerby, 1825) †
Species Crassostrea extensa (Deshayes, 1832) †
Species Crassostrea ferrarisi (A. d'Orbigny, 1842) †
Species Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim, 1813) †
Species Crassostrea mangle Amaral & Simone, 2014
Species Crassostrea mutabilis (Deshayes, 1832) †
Species Crassostrea patagonica (A. d'Orbigny, 1839) †
Species Crassostrea raincourti (Deshayes, 1858) †
Species Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding, 1828)
Species Crassostrea sophiae Pacaud, 2022 †
Species Crassostrea sparnacensis (Defrance, 1832) †
Species Crassostrea subangusta (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) †
Species Crassostrea subarcuata (Deshayes, 1832) †
Species Crassostrea subpunctata (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) †
Species Crassostrea transitoria (Hupé, 1854) †
Species Crassostrea tulipa (Lamarck, 1819)
Species Crassostrea vectensis (J. Morris, 1856) †
Species Crassostrea vindinonensis Pacaud, 2024 †
Species Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Magallana angulata (Lamarck, 1819)
Species Crassostrea ariakensis (Fujita, 1929) accepted as Magallana ariakensis (Fujita, 1929)
Species Crassostrea belcheri (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871) accepted as Magallana belcheri (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
Species Crassostrea bilineata (Röding, 1798) accepted as Magallana bilineata (Röding, 1798)
Species Crassostrea brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Crassostrea tulipa (Lamarck, 1819)
Species Crassostrea gasar (Dautzenberg, 1891) accepted as Crassostrea tulipa (Lamarck, 1819) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) accepted as Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Crassostrea ingens (Zittel, 1865) † accepted as Magallana ingens (Zittel, 1865) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Crassostrea iredalei (Faustino, 1932) accepted as Magallana bilineata (Röding, 1798)
Species Crassostrea madrasensis (Preston, 1916) accepted as Magallana bilineata (Röding, 1798) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Crassostrea nelsoniana (Zittel, 1865) † accepted as Ostrea chilensis Küster, 1844 (doubtful synonym)
Species Crassostrea rivularis (A. Gould, 1861) accepted as Magallana rivularis (A. Gould, 1861) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya, 1928) accepted as Magallana sikamea (Amemiya, 1928)
Subgenus Crassostrea (Angustostrea) Vialov, 1936 † represented as Crassostrea Sacco, 1897
Subgenus Crassostrea (Cymbulostrea) Vialov, 1936 † represented as Crassostrea Sacco, 1897
Species Crassostrea praia (Ihering, 1907) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of Ostrea (Crassostrea) Sacco, 1897) Sacco F. (1897). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 23 (Ostreidae, Anomiidae, Dimyidae). Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino. 12(298): 99-100., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11810051
page(s): 99 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Crassostrea Sacco, 1897. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138297 on 2025-04-13

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Crassostrea Sacco, 1897. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138297 on 2025-04-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2011-10-30 10:35:41Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-07-14 18:15:09Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-10-08 23:28:02Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Ostrea (Crassostrea) Sacco, 1897) Sacco F. (1897). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 23 (Ostreidae, Anomiidae, Dimyidae). Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino. 12(298): 99-100., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11810051
page(s): 99 [details]

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 Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Sacco, F. (1897). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXIII. Pelecypoda (Ostreidae, Anomiidae e Dimyidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 66 pp., 11 pl. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47330
page(s): 15 [details]

redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]