Global InformationSaccostrea echinata information
| Saccostrea echinata | |
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| Shell of Saccostrea echinata (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Ostreida |
| Family: | Ostreidae |
| Genus: | Saccostrea |
| Species: | S. echinata
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| Binomial name | |
| Saccostrea echinata Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)[1]
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Saccostrea echinata, commonly known as the tropical black-lip rock oyster, blacklip rock oyster,[2] blacklip oyster,[3] and spiny rock oyster,[4] is one of several tropical rock oyster species, occurring in tropical seas across the Indo-Pacific, including coastal waters across northern Australia to Noumea.[2]
The history of Indigenous Australians' harvesting of the oysters goes back many generations, as evidenced by the numerous shell middens along Australia's northern coastline. More recently, the wild oysters have been collected off the rocks and bottled for sale.[3]
- ^ a b WoRMS (2010). Schuchert P (ed.). "Saccostrea echinata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)". World Hydrozoa database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
- ^ a b Nowland, Samantha J.; Silva, Catarina N. S.; Southgate, Paul C.; Strugnell, Jan M. (12 September 2019). "Mitochondrial and nuclear genetic analyses of the tropical black-lip rock oyster (Saccostrea echinata) reveals population subdivision and informs sustainable aquaculture development". BMC Genomics. 20 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 711. doi:10.1186/s12864-019-6052-z. ISSN 1471-2164. PMC 6740020. PMID 31514727. Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
- ^ a b Boyer, Annabel (March 2019). "Rock-oysters-show-their-tropical-potential". Fish. 27 (1). Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC). Retrieved 5 November 2020. (Cover page here.)
- ^ "Saccostrea echinata (Qouy & Gaimard, 1835): Spiny rock oyster". SeaLifeBase. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
