Saccostrea glomerata

Saccostrea glomerata
Oysters on a rock at low tide, Wingan Inlet
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Ostreida
Family: Ostreidae
Genus: Saccostrea
Species:
S. glomerata
Binomial name
Saccostrea glomerata
(Gould, 1850)
Synonyms

Saccostrea commercialis
Crassostrea glomerata
Ostrea glomerata Gould, 1850[1][2]
Ostrea commercialis Iredale & Roughley, 1933[3]
Saccostrea culcullata ssp. glomerata[4]

Saccostrea glomerata is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae.[5]

It is endemic to Australia and New Zealand.[6][7] In Australia, it is known as the Sydney rock oyster and is commercially farmed. In New Zealand, where the species is no longer farmed, it is known as the New Zealand rock oyster or Auckland oyster.

  1. ^ "Taxon details: Saccostrea glomerata". World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
  2. ^ Gould, A. A. (1850). "Descriptions of new species of shells from the United States Exploring Expedition". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 3: 346. The type description is from a New Zealand specimen.
  3. ^ Iredale, Tom; Roughley, T. C. (1933). "The scientific name of the commercial oyster of New South Wales". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 58 (2): 278.
  4. ^ "Taxon details: Saccostrea culcullata". World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
  5. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138300 on 2022-04-27
  6. ^ Thompson, Jessica A.; Stow, Adam J.; Raftos, David A. (2017). "Lack of genetic introgression between wild and selectively bred Sydney rock oysters Saccostrea glomerata". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 570: 127–139. Bibcode:2017MEPS..570..127T. doi:10.3354/meps12109.
  7. ^ O'Hare, Jessica A.; Momigliano, Paolo; Raftos, David A.; Stow, Adam J. (2021). "Genetic structure and effective population size of Sydney rock oysters in eastern Australia". Conservation Genetics. 22 (3): 427–442. Bibcode:2021ConG...22..427O. doi:10.1007/s10592-021-01343-4.