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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OSTREIDAE: CRASSOSTREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Ostreida (Order)
> Ostreoidea (Superfamily)
> Ostreidae (Family)
> Crassostreinae (Subfamily)
> Magallana (Genus)
> gigas (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)
=Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793
Images: Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793)
Washed up, Bream Bay, Northland, NZ. 130mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OSTREIDAE: CRASSOSTREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Ostreida (Order)
> Ostreoidea (Superfamily)
> Ostreidae (Family)
> Crassostreinae (Subfamily)
> Magallana (Genus)
> gigas (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)
=Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793
Details: Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793)
Size/Grows to:
Length 200mm, Width 85mm. with records over 240mm
Distribution:
North Island and north-western and south-eastern South Island, NZ. Japan, China and south-east Asia
Notes:
Pacific Oyster, Tio, Marine, Non-indigenous
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Salvi, D., Macali, A., Mariottini, P. 2014 Molecular phylogenetics and systematics of the bivalve family Ostreidae based on rRNA sequence-structure models and multilocus species tree., PLoS ONE, 9(9) (p.3)
  • Eagle, M.K. Dec/2011 Oystering: Notes resulting from an April/2011 field-trip, Poirieria, 36 (p.6)
  • Jenkins, R.J., Meredyth-Young, J.L. 1979 Occurrence of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas off the South Island of New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 13(1) (p.173)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.376)
  • Gardner, N.W. Sep/1977 Our Oysters, Poirieria, 9(2) (p.35)

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NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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