Rock oysters are of the genus Saccostrea, belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae.[
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The best-known species is the Sydney rock oyster ( Saccostrea glomerata).
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists these species:
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Saccostrea circumsuta (Gould, 1850)
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Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778) – hooded oyster
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Saccostrea echinata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) – tropical black-lip rock oyster
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Saccostrea glomerata (Gould, 1850) - Sydney rock oyster
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Saccostrea kegaki Torigoe & Inaba, 1981
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Saccostrea malabonensis (Faustino, 1932) – Philippine hooded oyster ( talabang kukong kabayo)
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Saccostrea mordoides Z.-M. Cui, L.-S. Hu, C. Li, Z. Zhang, X.-M. Guo & H.-Y. Wang, 2021
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Saccostrea palmula (Carpenter, 1857)
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† Saccostrea saccellus (Dujardin, 1837)
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Saccostrea scyphophilla (Peron & Lesueur, 1807)
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Saccostrea spathulata (Lamarck, 1819)
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Saccostrea subtrigona (G.B. Sowerby II, 1871)
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† Saccostrea virleti (Deshayes, 1835)
- Synonyms
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Saccostrea commercialis (Tom Iredale & Roughley, 1933): synonym of Saccostrea glomerata (Gould, 1850)
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Saccostrea cucullata sic: synonym of Saccostrea cuccullata (Born, 1778) (misspelling)
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Saccostrea forskahlii (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Saccostrea cuccullata (Born, 1778)
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Saccostrea margaritacea (Lamarck, 1819): synonym of Striostrea margaritacea (Lamarck, 1819)
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Saccostrea mordax (Gould, 1850): synonym of Saccostrea scyphophilla (Peron & Lesueur, 1807)
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Saccostrea tubulifera (Dall, 1914): synonym of Saccostrea palmula (Carpenter, 1857)
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Dollfus, G.F. & Dautzenberg, P. (1920). Conchyliologie du Miocène moyen du Bassin de la Loire. 1re Partie: Pélécypodes (suite et fin). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Paléontologie. 22(2-4): 379-500, pls 34-51.
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Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
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