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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).

Distribution

Native 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/Status

Intentional transplantation/unestablished (Valdovinos 1999).

Remarks

Filter feeder, invasive species, species of commercial importance (Diederich et al. 2005). UA, II.

Notes

Published as part of Araya, Juan Francisco, 2015, Current status of the non-indigenous molluscs in Chile, with the first record of Otala punctata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) in the country and new records for Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774) and Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774), pp. 1731-1761 in Journal of Natural History 49 (29) on page 1734, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703, http://zenodo.org/record/3997965

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/933C3E2EFFE6FF89FE7100BDFEAF556A

Is part of
Journal article: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3997965 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/6F054656FFE5FF8AFFD6012AFFDB5147 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/933C3E2EFFE6FF89FE7100BDFEAF556A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/167307518 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21137/taxon/933C3E2EFFE6FF89FE7100BDFEAF556A.taxon (URL)

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.