Rock oysters are

true oyster The Ostreidae, the true oysters, include most species of molluscs commonly consumed as oysters. Pearl oysters are not true oysters, and belong to the order Pteriida. Like scallops, true oysters have a central adductor muscle, which means the sh ...

s of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family

Ostreidae The Ostreidae, the true oysters, include most species of molluscs commonly consumed as oysters. Pearl oysters are not true oysters, and belong to the order Pteriida. Like scallops, true oysters have a central adductor muscle, which means the sh ...

. 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 The best-known species is the

Sydney rock oyster ''Saccostrea glomerata'', is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ ...

(''Saccostrea glomerata'').

Species

The World Register of Marine Species lists these species: * '' Saccostrea circumsuta'' (Gould, 1850) * ''

Saccostrea cucullata ''Saccostrea cucullata'', the hooded oyster or Natal rock oyster, is a species of rock oyster found mainly in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. It was first described by the Czech mineralogist, metallurgist, and malacologist Ignaz von Born in 1778. De ...

'' (Born, 1778) – hooded oyster * '' Saccostrea echinata'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) – tropical black-lip rock oyster * ''

Saccostrea glomerata ''Saccostrea glomerata'', is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ ...

'' (Gould, 1850) - Sydney rock oyster * '' Saccostrea kegaki'' Torigoe & Inaba, 1981 * ''

Saccostrea malabonensis Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' (Faustino, 1932) – Philippine hooded oyster (''talabang kukong kabayo'') * ''

Saccostrea mordoides Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' Z.-M. Cui, L.-S. Hu, C. Li, Z. Zhang, X.-M. Guo & H.-Y. Wang, 2021 * ''

Saccostrea palmula Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' (Carpenter, 1857) * † ''

Saccostrea saccellus Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' (Dujardin, 1837) * ''

Saccostrea scyphophilla Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' (Peron & Lesueur, 1807) * ''

Saccostrea spathulata Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' (Lamarck, 1819) * ''

Saccostrea subtrigona Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' (G.B. Sowerby II, 1871) * † ''

Saccostrea virleti Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus ''Saccostrea'', belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' (Deshayes, 1835) ;Synonyms: * ''Saccostrea commercialis'' (Iredale & Roughley, 1933): synonym of ''

'' (Gould, 1850) * ''Saccostrea cucullata'' ic synonym of ''Saccostrea cuccullata'' (Born, 1778) (misspelling) * ''Saccostrea forskahlii'' (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of ''Saccostrea cuccullata'' (Born, 1778) * ''Saccostrea margaritacea'' (Lamarck, 1819): synonym of ''Striostrea margaritacea'' (Lamarck, 1819) * ''Saccostrea mordax'' (Gould, 1850): synonym of ''Saccostrea scyphophilla'' (Peron & Lesueur, 1807) * ''Saccostrea tubulifera'' (Dall, 1914): synonym of ''

'' (Carpenter, 1857)

References

* Dollfus, G.F. & Dautzenberg, P. (1920). Conchyliologie du Miocène moyen du Bassin de la Loire. 1re Partie: Pélécypodes (suite et fin). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Paléontologie. 22(2-4): 379-500, pls 34-51. * Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

External links

Harry, H.W. (1985). Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae. The Veliger. 28(2): 121-158.

Salvi D. & Mariottini P. (2017 [nomenclatural availability: 2016
. Molecular taxonomy in 2D: a novel ITS2 rRNA sequence-structure approach guides the description of the oysters' subfamily Saccostreinae and the genus Magallana (Bivalvia: Ostreidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(2): 263-276.] Saccostrea, {{Ostreidae-stub