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

Saccostreinae Salvi & Mariottini, 2016

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920

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	Li, C. (2013). Phylogeny and evolutionary analysis of oysters (Bivalvia: Ostreoidea) and complete mitochondrial DNA of Talonostrea talonata. M.Sc. Thesis. Qingdao: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 56 pp.
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Saccostreinae 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:887068