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Crassostrea

Taxonomy

Crassostrea was named by Sacco (1897) [Sepkoski's age data: K Nc R Sepkoski's reference number: 159]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Ostrea (Crassostrea) by Dall (1909).

It was assigned to Ostrea by Dall (1909); to Ostreinae by Vokes (1980), Woodring (1982), Dockery (1982), Moore (1987), Beu et al. (1990) and Ward (1992); to Crassostreinae by Lamprell and Healy (1998); to Pterioida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ostreidae by DuBar (1958), Tashiro and Kozai (1982), Ward and Blackwelder (1987), Chiesa et al. (1995), Frassinetti and Covacevich (1999), Todd (2001) and Spencer et al. (2004).

Species

C. alabamiensis, C. ashleyi (syn. Ostrea arnoldi), C. cahobasensis, C. columbiensis (syn. C. corteziensis), C. contracta, C. cucullaris, C. cuebana, C. cyathula (syn. Ostrea planicosta), C. dorsata, C. gryphoides, C. hatcheri, C. kawauchidensis, C. patagonica (syn. Ostrea ferrarisi), C. raincourti, C. titan (syn. Ostrea prior, Ostrea andersoni), C. transitoria (syn. Ostrea maxima), C. vaquerosensis, C. virginica

Species lacking formal opinion data

C. dichotoma, C. tuberculata

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Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1897	Crassostrea Sacco
1909	Ostrea (Crassostrea) Dall p. 111
1958	Crassostrea DuBar p. 158
1980	Crassostrea Vokes p. 65
1982	Crassostrea Dockery p. 53
1982	Crassostrea Tashiro and Kozai p. 78
1982	Crassostrea Woodring p. 610
1987	Crassostrea Moore pp. 30, 35
1987	Crassostrea Ward and Blackwelder p. 129
1990	Crassostrea Beu et al. p. 396
1992	Crassostrea Ward p. 76
1995	Crassostrea Chiesa et al. p. 42
1998	Crassostrea Lamprell and Healy p. 136
1999	Crassostrea Frassinetti and Covacevich p. 25
2001	Crassostrea Todd
2002	Crassostrea Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Crassostrea Spencer et al.

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