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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Bivalvia (class)  »  Ostreoida (order)  »  Ostreidae (family)

CAAB Code: 23 257020 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Ostrea edulis   Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family: 23 257 Ostreidae (oysters) - show full list
Common Name: flat European oyster
Common Names List: European flat oyster
Organism Type: an oyster
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 23 257906     Ostrea spp.
Taxon Notes:This species is native to Europe, and has been accidentally introduced to several other areas in the world, including Australia.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:388993d8-92a9-4e78-87e3-682e6940fa67
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140658
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-06-21
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source: Morton, B., Lam, K., Slack-Smith, S., 2003. First report of the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, identified genetically, from Oyster Harbour, Albany, south-western Western Australia., Molluscan Research, Vol. 23(3): 199-208.
Scientific Name
verified against
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Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.
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