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Species
common oyster
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderOstreida
- FamilyOstreidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,631
- With media
- 90
- Family
- Ostreidae
- Collections
- PRI, CAS, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, DMNS, LACM, UTEP
- Recorded in
- United States, France, India, Spain, United Kingdom, Australia, Algeria, Ireland
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Ostrea edulis
- Commons category
- Ostrea edulis
- taxon rank
- species
- Commons gallery
- Ostrea edulis
- taxon common name
- Europäische Auster
- start time
- 15970000-0
- short name
- O. edulis
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Encyclopedic overview
Ostrea edulis, commonly known as the European flat oyster, is a species of oyster native to Europe. In Great Britain and Ireland, localized names include Colchester native oyster, mud oyster, or edible oyster. In France, Ostrea edulis are known as huîtres plates (flat oysters) except for those that come from the Belon River [fr] estuary in Brittany, France, which are known as Belons.
The fossil record of this species dates back to the Miocene (age range: 15.97 million years ago to present day). Fossils have been found in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Egypt, Greece, Spain, the United Kingdom, Austria, France and Germany.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ostrea edulis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.