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Magallana gigas

(Thunberg, 1793)

Pacific Oyster

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Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.971294
Element CodeIMBIVBL020
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryInvertebrate Animal
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassBivalvia
OrderOstreoida
FamilyOstreidae
GenusMagallana
Synonyms
Crassostrea gigas(Thunberg, 1793)
Concept Reference
Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, P. M. Mikkelsen, R. J. Neves, C. F. E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F. G. Thompson, M. Vecchione, and J. D. Williams. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks. 2nd Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26, Bethesda, Maryland. 526 pp.
Taxonomic Comments
Salvi and Mariottin (2017) describe a new genus, Magallana, for the Pacific Oyster; this has been accepted by MolluscBase (2023). This generic change is controversial (see Bayne et al. 2017, Backeljau 2018).
Ecology & Habitat
Other Nations (1)
CanadaNNA
ProvinceRankNative
British ColumbiaSNANo
Roadless Areas (2)
Alaska (1)
AreaForestAcres
Behm IslandsTongass National Forest4,777
Washington (1)
AreaForestAcres
Jupiter RidgeOlympic National Forest10,148
References (6)
  1. Backeljau, T. 2018. <i>Crassostrea gigas</i> or <i>Magallana gigas</i>: a community-based scientific response. National Shellfisheries Association Quarterly Newsletter (1): 3. Online: https://shellfish.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/Current_Newsletters/qnl_2018_1.pdf
  2. Bayne, B.L., M. Ahrens, S.K. Allen, M. Angl Es D Auriac, T. Backeljau, P. Beninger, R. Bohn, P. Boudry, J. Davis, T. Green, X. Guo, D. Hedgecock, A. Ibarra, P. Kingsley-Smith, M. Krause, C. Langdon, S. Lap Egue, C. Li, D. Manahan, R. Mann, L. Perez-Paralle, E.N. Powell, P.D. Rawson, D. Speiser, J.-L. Sanchez, S. Shumway, and H. Wang. 2017. The proposed dropping of the genus <i>Crassostrea</i> for all Pacific cupped oysters and its replacement by a new genus <i>Magallana</i>: A dissenting view. Journal of Shellfish Research 36: 545-547
  3. Coan, E. V., and P. Valentich-Scott. 2012. Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
  4. MolluscaBase eds. 2023. MolluscaBase. Accessed at https://www.molluscabase.org.
  5. Salvi D. and P. Mariottini. 2017. 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. Online: https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12455
  6. Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, P. M. Mikkelsen, R. J. Neves, C. F. E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F. G. Thompson, M. Vecchione, and J. D. Williams. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks. 2nd Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26, Bethesda, Maryland. 526 pp.