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Species List for Family: Ostreidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Ostreida (Order) > Ostreoidea (Superfamily) > Ostreidae (Family)

  • Family: Ostreidae

  • Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793)
    Length 200mm, Width 85mm. with records over 240mm
    Pacific Oyster, Tio, Marine, Non-indigenous
    North Island and north-western and south-eastern South Island, NZ. Japan, China and south-east Asia, from 0-188m
  • Ostrea chilensis Philippi in Küster, 1844
    Length 80mm, Width 75mm
    Bluff Oyster, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-293m
  • Ostrea equestris Say, 1834
    Length 45mm, Width 30mm
    Marine, Non-indigenous
    Three Kings Islands and northern North Island as far south as Raglan and Hauraki Gulf, from 0m
  • Saccostrea glomerata (A.A. Gould, 1850)
    Length 80mm, Width 55mm
    Northern Rock Oyster, Tio, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Northern North Island as far south as Aotea (west) and Ohiwa Harbours (east), and Chatham Islands, from 0m
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