Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hyotissa quercinus
Bivalve
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Ostreida
Superfamily
Ostreoidea
Family
Gryphaeidae
Genus
Hyotissa
Species
quercinus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hyotissa quercina (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871), Ostraea quercinus G. B. Sowerby II, 1871, Parahyotissa quercina (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871) (Horton et al., 2021); (P. quercina) LACM: 151970, 66-12 (fide Kaiser, 1997)
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 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, Hyotissa quercinus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20030. Accessed 1 November 2026.