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Crassostrea gigas
Creators
- 1. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile; & Laboratorio de Química Inorgánica, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile
Description
Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) Description
Osorio (2002), Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012).
DistributionNative to Japan and Korea and the North Atlantic Ocean (Coan and Valentich- Scott 2012). This species is usually introduced through aquaculture (Diederich et al. 2005). In Chile this species was introduced in 1978 and has been recorded from latitude 15° S to 40° S (Valdovinos 1999).
Possible mechanism of introduction/StatusIntentional transplantation/unestablished (Valdovinos 1999).
RemarksFilter feeder, invasive species, species of commercial importance (Diederich et al. 2005). UA, II.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ostreidae
- Genus
- Crassostrea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ostreida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Thunberg
- Species
- gigas
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) sec. Araya, 2015
References
- Thunberg CP. 1793. Tekning och Beskrifning pa en stor Ostronsort ifran Japan. K Sven Vetensk Akad Handl. 14: 140 - 142.
- Osorio C. 2002. Moluscos marinos en Chile: especies de importancia economica: guia para su identificacion. Santiago, Chile: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile.
- Coan EV, Valentich-Scott P. 2012. Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara Monographs: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
- Diederich S, Nehls G, Beusekom JE, Reise K. 2005. Introduced Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) in the northern Wadden Sea: invasion accelerated by warm summers? Helgoland Mar Res. 59: 97 - 106.
- Valdovinos C. 1999. Biodiversidad de moluscos chilenos: base de datos taxonomica y distribucional. Gayana. 63: 111 - 164.