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    The Ostreidae, the true oysters, include most species of molluscs commonly consumed as oysters. Pearl oysters are not true oysters, and belong to the...
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    Ostrea is a genus of edible oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters. This genus is very ancient. It is known in the fossil records...
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    oysters are not closely related to either the edible oysters of family Ostreidae or the freshwater pearl mussels of the families Unionidae and Margaritiferidae...
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    genus Saccostrea, belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae. The best-known species is the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata)...
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    Compare ὀστέον (osteon) 'bone'. True oysters are members of the family Ostreidae. This family includes the edible oysters, which mainly belong to the genera...
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    Crassostrea is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) containing some of the most important oysters used for food. The genus was recent split in WoRMS...
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  • dictionary. An oyster is a bivalve mollusc. Oyster may also refer to: Ostreidae, the family of true oysters Oyster (magazine), Australian magazine about...
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    bivalve mollusc in the family Ostreidae. This species of flat oyster is a marine bivalve mollusc of the family Ostreidae. This species is native to Chile...
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    This Ostreidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it....
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    tulipa, the West African mangrove oyster, is a true oyster in the family Ostreidae. The mangrove oyster is found in tropical intertidal zones. It grows on...
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    Aviculopectinidae, did not possess it. Like the true oysters (family Ostreidae), scallops have a single central adductor muscle, thus, the inside of...
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    developed axial rod. Anal flaps are known to exist within the family Ostreidae but not within the more-primitive Gryphaeidae. The scar from the adductor...
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    and two extant families are recognised within it. The two families are Ostreidae, the true oysters, and Gryphaeidae, the foam oysters. In 2010, a new proposed...
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    looking for food. The eastern oyster, like all members of the family Ostreidae, can make small pearls to surround particles that enter the shell. These...
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    is a species of edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae. This species occurs on the northern Pacific coast of North America. Over...
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  • Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Ostreida Family: Ostreidae Genus: Magallana Species: M. sikamea Binomial name Magallana sikamea Amemiya...
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    as the mangrove cupped oyster, is a species of bivalve in the family Ostreidae. C. rhizophorae is one of the predominant oyster species in the South...
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    Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Ostreida Family: Ostreidae Genus: Ostrea Species: O. conchaphila Binomial name Ostrea conchaphila...
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    (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and systematics of the bivalve family Ostreidae based on rRNA sequence-structure models and multilocus species tree"....
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  • Ostreola may also be used to refer to also a genus of oyster in the family Ostreidae; however, this name is unaccepted and Ostrea should be used instead. Lumbsch...
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    Saccostrea glomerata is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae. It is endemic to Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, it is known as...
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    Magallana is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) containing some of the most important oysters used for food. Species in this genus have been moved...
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    "Dvaasedmdesát jmen české historie (46/72) Ignác Born". Retrieved 2012-05-25. "Ostreidae: Saccostrea cucullata". CIESM: The Mediterranean Science Commission. 2003...
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  • morphological identification of a new species of Crassostrea (Bivalvia: Ostreidae) cultured for centuries in the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong, China". Aquaculture...
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    as the scallops. They are not closely related to true oysters (family Ostreidae); however, they do share some habits such as cementing themselves to rocks...
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    is a species of fossil oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae, the oyster. This species lived during the Pliocene. Fossils have been...
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  • Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Ostreida Family: Ostreidae Genus: Magallana Species: M. nippona Binomial name Magallana nippona (Seki...
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  • Thumbnail for Ostrea equestris
    oyster or horse oyster, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Ostreidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North and South America,...
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    Portuguese oyster (category Ostreidae)
    belongs to the phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, order Ostreoida, and family Ostreidae. The genus Crassostrea contains several other important oyster species...
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  • Thumbnail for Ostrea angasi
    Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Ostreida Family: Ostreidae Genus: Ostrea Species: O. angasi Binomial name Ostrea angasi Sowerby,...
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