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Ostreidae - Crassostreinae: Crassostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793 ('Pacific oyster')
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Synonym(s):
gigas Thunberg, 1793
laperousi Schrenk, 1861
talienwhanensis Crosse, 1862.
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Figures a-b: total length 140 mm, Taroona, Tas (S). Figures c-f: 72 mm, Marion Bay, Tas (E). Figures g-h: 55 mm, Kettering, Tas (S). |
Typical shell-length 130 mm. Lives intertidally and subtidally attached to rocks and shells, sometimes in dense accretions.
Occurs in southeastern Australia (NSW, TAS, VIC and SA); also northeast Asia (native) and widely introduced elsewhere. In Tasmania this is a widespread and common species following intentional introduction from Japan for commercial culture for food.
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