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Saccostrea

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Description

Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus Saccostrea. The best-known species is the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccostrea, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2286097	https://www.gbif.org/species/2286097
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17013	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17013

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Ostreidae : Saccostrea

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Ostreidae : Saccostrea

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Pteriomorphia
-	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Ostreida
suborder	Ostreidina
superfamily	Ostreoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Ostreidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Crassostreinae	Scarlato and Starobogatov 1979
genus	Saccostrea	Dollfus & Dautzenberg 1920

Scientific Name

Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920

Name Published In

Mém. Soc. Géol. France, no. 27, Paleont., 22

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Saccostrea	genus	belongs to Ostreinae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Saccostrea	genus	belongs to Crassostreinae	stated with evidence	Moore, 1987
Saccostrea	genus	belongs to Crassostreinae	implied	Lamprell and Healy, 1998
Saccostrea	genus	belongs to Ostreidae	stated without evidence	Todd, 2001
Saccostrea	genus	belongs to Pterioida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Saccostrea	genus	belongs to Ostreidae	stated without evidence	Spencer et al., 2004
Saccostrea	genus	belongs to Crassostreinae	stated with evidence	Lam and Morton, 2009

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (83%)

First Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

hypersaline,marine,brackish (based on Ostreidae)

Motility

stationary, attached

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: EP, IM, CE, SU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Ostreidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccostrea

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Saccostrea circumsuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Saccostrea cucculata species	listed (PBDB)
Saccostrea cuccullata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		22	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Saccostrea echinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Saccostrea glomerata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Commercial Rock Oyster	3	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Saccostrea kegaki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Saccostrea malabonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Saccostrea mordax species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Saccostrea palmula species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Saccostrea scyphophilla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Saccostrea spathulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Saccostrea subtrigona species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Saxostrea Iredale, 1936	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Ostreidae : *Saxostrea*
Parastriostrea Harry, 1985	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Ostreidae : *Parastriostrea*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1920	Saccostrea Dolfuss and Dautzenberg
1980	Saccostrea Vokes p. 66
1987	Saccostrea Moore pp. 30, 32
1998	Saccostrea Lamprell and Healy p. 134
2001	Saccostrea Todd
2002	Saccostrea Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Saccostrea Spencer et al.
2009	Saccostrea Lam and Morton p. 482

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Moore E. J. (1987) Tertiary Marine Pelycypods of California and Baja California: Plicatulidae to Ostreidae, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1228 C, 1-53

Lamprell K., Healy J. (1998) , Bivalves of Australia 2

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of bivalves in the Panama Paleontology Project collections, [http://eusmilia.geology.uiowa.edu/database/bivalves/systemat/bivaltax.htm#list]

Spencer H. G., Willan R. C., et al (2004) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/index.html]

Lam K., Morton B. (2009) Oysters (Bivalvia: Ostreidae and Gryphaeidae) recorded from Malaysia and Singapore, The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 2, 481-494

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. - via World Register of Marine Species

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. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mém. Soc. Géol. France, no. 27, Paleont., 22 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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