Taxonomic Details for Crassostrea virginica
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| Common Name: | eastern oyster | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Authority: | (Gmelin, 1791) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ITIS TSN: | 79872 (click on the taxonomic serial number to view the ITIS web page) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Habitats: | Salinity Zone: Brackish water, Salinity Zone: Marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| GCE Contact: | Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston, Houston, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| GCE Data Sets: | ANT-GCED-2005 (Oyster Paleobiology along the South Atlantic Coast of the United States) MLT-GCED-0811 (Vegetation and invertebrate communities in 500 plots in the Duplin and Dean Creek watersheds: ground truth data for matching hyperspectral imagery) INV-GCEM-0305a1 (Mollusc population abundance monitoring: Fall 2000 mid-marsh and creekbank infaunal and epifaunal mollusc abundance based on collections from GCE marsh, monitoring sites 1-10) INV-GCEM-0305a2 (Mollusc population size distribution monitoring: Fall 2000 mid-marsh and creekbank infaunal and epifaunal mollusc size distributions based on collections from GCE marsh, monitoring sites 1-10) |
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Oyster clump, Sapelo Island, 2016. Photo Steven Pennings
Oyster reef, Sapelo Island, 2016. Photo Steven Pennings
