Saccostrea spathulata ( Lamarck, 1819 )

Duangdee, Teerapong, , Kitithorn Sanpanich, , Sherralee S. Lukehurst, Wells, & Fred E., 2025, Clarification of the identity of oysters in the genera Magallana and Saccostrea in the upper Gulf of Thailand based on 16 S rRNA sequences, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 73, pp. 12-33 : 25

Saccostrea spathulata ( Lamarck, 1819)

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Habitat. Rocky shore.

Material examined. Site 2, Samaesan. Identified in the field as Ostrea sp. ( Table 2).

Published Gulf of Thailand records. None.

Geographic range. Uncertain, sequenced records from Queensland, Western Australia, and Japan ( McDougall et al., 2024).

Remarks. This is the species previously referred to as Saccostrea J. Sekino & Yamashita (2016) , McDougall et al. (2024), and Richardson et al. (2024) all presented evidence to support their conclusion Saccostrea J is actually S. spathulata .