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Striostrea prismatica (Gray, 1825)

Stone oyster

Size: 15 (-25) cm

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal, on exposed rocks

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Bivalvia

Order
Ostreida

Superfamily
Ostreoidea

Family
Ostreidae

Genus
Striostrea

Species
prismatica

Taxon category: Accepted

LACM: 34-182 (fide Kaiser, 1997); 84-26, 84-29, 84-31, 84-35, 84-41, 84-44 (fide Kaiser, 1997: 1985 note by Harry determined this material as Saccostrea palmula); 66-121, 66-210 (fide Kaiser, 1997: were identified as O. iridescens Hanley, 1854)

Origin: Native

References

  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • Fischer, W. Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Vol. I. Plantas e Invertebrados. FAO, Roma, 646 pp.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Striostrea prismatica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10444. Accessed 5 November 2026.