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Taxonomic Details for Crassostrea virginica
Systematic Resumé: |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Subkingdom | Bilateria |
Infrakingdom | Protostomia |
Superphylum | Lophozoa |
Phylum | Mollusca |
Class | Bivalvia |
Subclass | Pteriomorphia |
Order | Ostreoida |
Family | Ostreidae |
Genus | Crassostrea |
Species | 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 |
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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) |

Oyster clump, Sapelo Island, 2016. Photo Steven Pennings

Oyster reef, Sapelo Island, 2016. Photo Steven Pennings
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