Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Ostreida > Superfamily Ostreoidea > Family Ostreidae > Subfamily Crassostreinae > Genus Magallana

Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Magallana*	Salvi & Mariottini, 2016	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Crassostrea gigas*	(Thunberg, 1793)	synonym
*Crassostrea laperousii*	(Schrenck, 1862)	synonym
*Crassostrea posjetica*	(Razin, 1934)	synonym
*Crassostrea talienwhanensis*	(Crosse, 1862)	synonym
*Ostrea gigas*	Thunberg, 1793	synonym
*Ostrea laperousii*	Schrenck, 1861	synonym
*Ostrea posjetica*	Razin, 1934	synonym
*Ostrea talienwhanensis*	Crosse, 1862	synonym

Literature

new combination reference	Salvi D. & Mariottini P. (2017 [nomenclatural availability: 2016]). Molecular taxonomy in 2D: a novel ITS2 rRNA sequence-structure approach guides the description of the oysters' subfamily Saccostreinae and the genus Magallana (Bivalvia: Ostreidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(2): 263-276.
status source	Backeljau, T. (2018). Crassostrea gigas or Magallana gigas: A Community-based Scientific Response. National Shellfisheries Association Quarterly Newsletter. (1): 3.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:836033