Species

• Crassostrea (Sacco, 1897)
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    Extinction
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    Crassostrea alabamiensis (Lea 1833)
  • Crassostrea angulata (Lamarck 1819) - Portuguese oyster
    Portuguese oyster
    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 that the Portuguese oyster originated from the Pacific coast...
    
    
  • Crassostrea ariakensis (Fujita, 1913) - Suminoe oyster or Chinese oyster
  • †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
    Leo George Hertlein
    Leo George Hertlein was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the Recent and fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean.Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas...
    
    , 1951)
  • †Crassostrea cucullaris (Lamarck 1819)
  • †Crassostrea cuebana Jung 1974
  • Crassostrea gasar - Mangrove oyster
    Mangrove oyster
    Mangrove oyster is a true oyster in the Ostreidae family....
    
    
  • Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) - Pacific oyster
    Pacific oyster
    The Pacific oyster, Japanese oyster or Miyagi oyster , is an oyster native to the Pacific coast of Asia. It has become an introduced species in North America, Australia, Europe, and New Zealand.- Etymology :...
    
    
  • Crassostrea glomerata (Gould, 1850) - Auckland oyster
    Auckland oyster
    The Auckland oyster, Crassostrea glomerata, is a species of bivalve mollusc of the family Ostreidae.-References:* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
    
    
  • †Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim 1813)
  • †Crassostrea hatcheri (Ihering 1899)
  • Crassostrea iredalei (Sacco, 1932) - Faustino
  • †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 virginica (Gmelin, 1791) - Eastern oyster
    Eastern oyster
    The eastern oyster — also called Atlantic oyster or Virginia oyster — is a species of true oyster native to the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico coast of North America. It is also farmed in Puget Sound, Washington, where it is known as the Totten Inlet Virginica. Eastern oysters are and have...