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Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)
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Native to the northern Pacific, this species has been widely introduced elsewhere for aquaculture, and it has become established in the wild in most of these areas. This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 653002 (FISHLIST 653002).
Scientific Name Notes:
All Indo-Pacific species previous placed in Crassostrea are now placed in Magallana, and the genus Crassostrea is now considered to be restricted to the Americas. Not all workers agree with this change, eg Bayne et al (2017) J. Shellfish Res. 36(3):545-547, and both names (Magellana gigas and Crassostrea gigas) will be encountered in the literature, but here we follow WoRMS in accepting the genus change.
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140656
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2016-05-11
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
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Images:
Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)
Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Record source:
Lamprell, K. Healy, J., 1998, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden
Scientific Name verified against:
Salvi, D., Mariottini, P., 2017. 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, Vol. 179(2): 263-276. . doi:10.1111/zoj.12455 doi:10.1111/zoj.12455
