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

Magallana Salvi & Mariottini, 2016

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Magallana angulata (Lamarck, 1819)
Magallana dactylena (Iredale, 1939)
Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793)

Literature

original description	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.
additional source	Willan, R. C. (2021). Magallana or mayhem?. Molluscan Research. 41 (1): 75-79.
additional source	Salvi D., Macali A. & Mariottini P. (2014). Molecular phylogenetics and systematics of the bivalve family Ostreidae based on rRNA sequence-structure models and multilocus species tree. PLoS ONE. 9(9): e108696.
additional source	Bayne B.L., Ahrens M., Allen S. K., Anglès D'auriac M., Backeljau T., Beninger P., Bohn R., Boudry P., Davis J., Green T., Guo X., Hedgecock D., Ibarra A., Kingsley-Smith P., Krause M., Langdon C., Lapègue S., Li C., Manahan D., Mann R., Perez-Paralle L., Powell E.N., Rawson P.D., Speiser D., SanchezJ.L., Shumway S. & Wang H. (2017). The proposed dropping of the genus Crassostrea for all Pacific cupped oysters and Its replacement by a new genus Magallana: A dissenting view. Journal of Shellfish Research. 6(3): 545-547.
additional source	Guo, X.; Li, C.; Wang, H.; Xu, Z. (2018). Diversity and evolution of living oysters. Journal of Shellfish Research. 37(4): 755-771.
status source	Sigwart, J. D.; Wong, N. L. W. S.; Esa, Y. (2021). Global controversy in oyster systematics and a newly described species from SE Asia (Bivalvia: Ostreidae: Crassostreinae). Marine Biodiversity. 51(5).

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Magallana Salvi & Mariottini, 2016. 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:836032