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    Species Accepted

    Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793)

    Japanese Oyster
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Magallana

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 46 countries or islands

      46 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
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      ArgentinaNo
      AustraliaNo
      BelgiumNo
      BelgiumNoUnknown
      BrazilNo
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      36 results
      Didžioji austrė Lithuanian
      Huître creuse French
      Huître japonaise French
      Japanese Oyster English
      Japanse oester Dutch
      Japansk østers Danish
      Miyagi Oyster English
      Ostra del Pacífico Spanish
      Ostra japonesa Spanish
      Ostra-do-pacífico Portuguese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      18 results
      Sowerby, & II, G. B. (1870). Monograph of the genus Ostraea. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 18, pl. 1-33 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 2-5, October 1870; pl. 6-13, January 1871; pl. 14-16, February 1871; pl. 17-27, September 1871; pl. 1, 28-33, November 1871]. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=8908
      Schrenck, L. von. (1861). Vorläufige Diagnosen einiger neuer Molluskenarten aus der Meerenge der Tartarei und dem nord-japanischen Meere. Bulletin de l’Académie Impériale Des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 4: 408–413. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=137721
      Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
      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. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=163050
      Crosse, H. (1862). Description d’une espèce nouvelle du nord de la Chine. Journal de Conchyliologie, 10: 149–150, pl. 6 fig. 6. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=390898
      Zicha O, Hrb J, Maňas M, Novák J, and BioLib contributors. BioLib.cz: Taxonomic tree of plants and animals with photos. 1999 - 2019, https://www.biolib.cz/en/main/
      Razin, A. I. (1934). Morskie promyslovye Molliuski luzhnogo Primor’ia [in Russian; Commercial marine molluscs of the southern maritime province]. Tizhookeanskii Nauchnyi Institut Rybnogo Zhostaistva, Isvestiia, 8: 110 pp, 1 foldout map. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=222797
      Thunberg, C. P. (1793). Tekning och Beskrifning på en stor Ostronsort ifrån Japan. Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar, 14. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=40541
      Orton, J. H. (1928). The dominant species of Ostrea. Nature, 121 (3044): 320–321. https://doi.org/10.1038/121320b0 10.1038/121320b0
      Coan E.V., Lutaenko K.A., Zhang J.L. [Junlong] & Sun Q.M. [Qimeng]. (2015). The molluscan taxa of A. W. Grabau & S. G. King (1928) and their types. Malacologia, 58. https://doi.org/10.4002/040.058.0206 10.4002/040.058.0206

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