Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Ostreoida > Superfamily Ostreoidea > Family Ostreidae > Subfamily Crassostreinae

Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Saxostrea Iredale, 1936 synonym

Children

Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778)
Saccostrea glomerata (Gould, 1850)

Literature

basis of record

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213

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. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138300

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine

Importance

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Last modified

2011-10-30 by Philippe Bouchet

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