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Crassostrea virginica (American cupped oyster; Blue Point oyster; eastern oyster; Amerikaanse Atlantische oester; Amerikanische Auster; Amerikansk østers; Huître américaine; Huître de Virginie; Noordamerikaanse oester; Ostión americano; Ostra americana; Ostrica della Virginia)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)—also called Wellfleet oyster, Atlantic oyster, Virginia oyster, or American oyster—is a species of true oyster native to the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico coast of North America. It is also farmed in Puget Sound, Washington, where it is known as the Totten Inlet Virginica. Eastern oysters are and have been very popular commercially. Today, less than 1% of the original 17th-century population (when the original colonists arrived) is thought to remain in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, although population estimates from any era are uncertain. The eastern oyster is the state shellfish of Connecticut, its shell is the state shell of Virginia and Mississippi, and its shell in cabochon form is the state gem of Louisiana.
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Infraspecies

Crassostrea virginica virginica
Ostrea virginica virginica

Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Reef, Coastal

Emblem of

Connecticut
Mississippi
Virginia

Prey / Diet

Predators

Consumers

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♦ 3HISTORICAL DIET ANALYSIS OF LOGGERHEAD (CARETTA CARETTA) AND KEMP’S RIDLEY (LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPI) SEA TURTLES IN VIRGINIA, Erin E. Seney, A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the School of Marine Science The College of William and Mary in Virginia (2003)
♦ 4Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 5Predation by the Black-clawed Mud Crab, Panopeus herbstii, in Mid-Atlantic Salt Marshes: Further Evidence for Top-down Control of Marsh Grass Production, BRIAN REED SILLIMAN, CRAIG A. LAYMAN, KANE GEYER, and J. C. ZIEMAN, Estuaries Vol. 27, No. 2, p. 188–196, April 2004
♦ 6Feeding habits and phenotypic changes in proboscis length in the southern oyster drill, Stramonita haemastoma (Gastropoda: Muricidae), on Florida sabellariid worm reefs, Jeffrey T. Watanabe, Craig M. Young, Marine Biology (2006) 148: 1021–1029
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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