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

Ostreidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Crassostreinae Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
Ostreinae Rafinesque, 1815
Saccostreinae Salvi & Mariottini, 2016
Striostreinae Harry, 1985

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: oesters sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: oysters sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: ostréidés sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

German: Austern sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: イタボガキ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: ostron

Literature

original description	Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp.
basis of record	Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J. P. (2010). Nomenclator of bivalve families; with a classification of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia. 52(2): 1-184.
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	Harry, H.W. (1985). Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae. The Veliger. 28(2): 121-158.
additional source	Stenzel, H.B. (1971). Oysters. In, Moore, R.C. (Ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, part N, Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence. Vol. 3: i-iv, N953–N1224.
additional source	Inaba, A. & Torigoe, K. (2004). Oysters in the world. Part 2. Systematic description of the Recent oysters. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 3: 1-63, pl.1-13, (1)-(9).
additional source	Harry H.W. (1986). Sententia: the relevancy of the generic concept to the geographic distribution of living oysters (Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). American Malacological Bulletin. 4: 157-162.
additional source	Ó Foighil, D.; Taylor, D. J. (2000). Evolution of parental care and ovulation behavior in oysters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 15(2): 301-313.
additional source	Nicol, D. (1984). Critique on Stenzel's book on the Ostracea. The Nautilus. 98(3): 123-126.
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ostreidae Rafinesque, 1815. 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:215