Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13244740 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13244875 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F01A8782-930E-F60E-FF32-52AFB21FFCC7 |
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Felipe |
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Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920 |
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Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920 View in CoL
Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920: 471 View in CoL ; Stenzel, 1971: N1134-N1135; Torigoe, 1981: 306, 327-328; Harry, 1985: 150.
Type species. – Ostrea saccellus Dujardin, 1835 , by monotypy.
Description. – Small to medium-sized. Shell shape varies from spatulate and oval ostreiform to abnormal rudistiform. There may be a small, operculiform right valve and a large, conical, cornucopia-like left valve carrying a large ligamental area. Left valve attaches to hard substrata such as bare rock surfaces or mangrove roots and stems and carries layers of growth squamae and rough irregular rounded dichotomous radial ribs. Size of umbonal cavity depends on attachment area of left valve and thus varies among individuals. Right valve is flat with scaly growth squamae of conchiolin. Chomata present, usually stronger along the posterior and anterior margins but faded ventrally or encircling the entire valve. Chomata may be very weak in some individuals. Nonincubatory. Geographic distribution includes the Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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