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Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793)

Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)Specimen from Chioggia near Venice, Italy (actual size 85 mm)
Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)
Specimen from Chioggia near Venice, Italy (actual size 85 mm)

836033  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:836033)

accepted
Species
Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Crassostrea laperousii (Schrenck, 1862) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Crassostrea posjetica (Razin, 1934) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Crassostrea talienwhanensis (Crosse, 1862) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793) Thunberg, C.P. (1793). Tekning och Beskrifning på en stor Ostronsort ifrån Japan. <em>Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar.</em> 14(4-6): 140-142, 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46957303 [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=836033 on 2026-04-27
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=836033 on 2026-04-27
Date
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by
2015-03-19 20:25:34Z
created
Marshall, Bruce
2015-03-22 19:09:38Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce
2016-07-08 20:26:57Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce
2017-10-24 07:53:27Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2023-10-20 04:16:26Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce

original description (of Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793) Thunberg, C.P. (1793). Tekning och Beskrifning på en stor Ostronsort ifrån Japan. <em>Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar.</em> 14(4-6): 140-142, 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46957303 [details] OpenAccess publication

new combination reference Salvi D. & Mariottini P. (2017 [nomenclatural availability: 2016]). Molecular taxonomy in 2D: a novel ITS2 rRNA sequence-structure approach guides the description of the oysters' subfamily Saccostreinae and the genus <i>Magallana</i> (Bivalvia: Ostreidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 179(2): 263-276., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12455 [details] 

status source Backeljau, T. (2018). Crassostrea gigas or Magallana gigas: A Community-based Scientific Response. <em>National Shellfisheries Association Quarterly Newsletter.</em> (1): 3., available online at https://shellfish.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/Current_Newsletters/qnl_2018_1.pdf [details] OpenAccess publication
 
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LanguageName 
Dutch Japanse oester [from synonym]  [details]
English Portuguese oyster [from synonym]Pacific cupped oyster [from synonym]  [details]
French huître portugaise [from synonym]huître creuse [from synonym]  [details]
German Portugiesische Auster [from synonym]Felsenauster [from synonym]  [details]
European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Crassostrea gigas (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
Global invasive species database - Crassostrea gigas (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
Marine Life Information Network - UK (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To Barcode of Life (394 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Crassostrea talienwhanensis (Crosse, 1862))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (102 publications) (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (86 publications) (from synonym Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To Dyntaxa (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Magallana gigas) 
To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To FAO Species fact sheets (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To GenBank (296363 nucleotides; 65854 proteins) (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To GenBank (296363 nucleotides; 65854 proteins) 
To GenBank (296363 nucleotides; 65854 proteins) (from synonym Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS) (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To Malacopics (Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793) Gambia, North Bank, Mondin, at low tide, in mangrov... 
To Malacopics (Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793) Netherlands, Zeeland, Schouwen-Duiveland, Westensch... 
To Malacopics (Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793) Seto Naikai (Inland Sea of Seto), by fishing, colle... 
To Malacopics (Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793) United States, Washington, South Bend, Willipa harb... 
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To Niet-inheemse soorten Belgisch deel Noordzee en aanpalende estuaria (in Dutch) (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To PESI (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
To PESI (from synonym Ostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793)
To PESI (from synonym Crassostrea talienwhanensis (Crosse, 1862))
To PESI (from synonym Crassostrea laperousii (Schrenck, 1862))
To PESI (from synonym Crassostrea posjetica (Razin, 1934))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793))
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed