Order
Ostreida
13 species
The list of species of Ostreida order
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The list of species of Ostreida order
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The Pacific oyster, Japanese oyster, or Miyagi oyster (Magallana gigas ), is an oyster native to the Pacific coast of Asia. It has become an introduced species in North America, Australia, Europe, and New Zealand.
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...
Ostrea edulis, commonly known as the European flat oyster, is a species of oyster native to Europe. In Britain and Ireland, regional names include Colchester native oyster, mud oyster, or edible oyster. In France, Ostrea edulis are known as huîtres...
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...
Ostrea lurida, common name the Olympia oyster, after Olympia, Washington in the Puget Sound area, is a species of edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae. This species occurs on the northern Pacific coast of North America....
Saccostrea glomerata, is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae.It is endemic to Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, it is known as the Sydney rock oyster and is commercially farmed. In New Zealand, where the species is not farmed,...
The dredge oyster, bluff oyster or Chilean oyster: Ostrea chilensis (Küster, 1844), is also known in Chile as ostra verde.This species of flat oyster is a marine bivalve mollusc of the family Ostreidae.
The Portuguese oyster, Crassostrea angulata, is a species of oyster found in the southwest Iberian Peninsula, closely related to the Pacific oyster. Although first identified as a native European species, genetic studies have suggested the...
Crassostrea tulipa, the West African mangrove oyster, is a true oyster in the family Ostreidae.
Ostrea conchaphila is a species of oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk which lives on the Pacific coast of Mexico south of Baja California. Until recently there was some confusion as to whether this more southern oyster species might in fact be the...
Ostrea stentina is a species of oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters.
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...
Ostrea compressirostra is a species of prehistoric saltwater oyster, a fossil that is found in the Yorktown Formation, Chowan River Formation, Waccamaw Formation, and their equivalents in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia (U.S....