Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758
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Oysters are found widely around the western European coastline as far north as Spitsbergen, and south to Morocco and the Mediterranean. They can turn up all around the British coast with the best areas being the Thames Estuary, the west coast of Scotland, the Solent, the estuary of the River Fal, and Loch Foyle. They are also cultivated in other parts of the world such as North America, Japan and Australasia.
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North America, Western Atlantic Ocean
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United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
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Depth range based on 123 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 7 samples.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0 - 226.5
Temperature range (°C): 8.393 - 11.855
Nitrate (umol/L): 2.055 - 10.807
Salinity (PPS): 32.945 - 35.334
Oxygen (ml/l): 5.996 - 6.579
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.399 - 0.640
Silicate (umol/l): 2.489 - 7.273
Graphical representation
Depth range (m): 0 - 226.5
Temperature range (°C): 8.393 - 11.855
Nitrate (umol/L): 2.055 - 10.807
Salinity (PPS): 32.945 - 35.334
Oxygen (ml/l): 5.996 - 6.579
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.399 - 0.640
Silicate (umol/l): 2.489 - 7.273
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Ostrea edulis is associated with highly productive estuarine and shallow coastal water habitats on firm bottoms of mud, rocks, muddy sand, muddy gravel with shells and hard silt. In exploited areas, suitable habitat is/has been created in the form of 'cultch' - broken shells and other hard substrata.
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Oysters need a firm bedrock or an artificial equivalent along coastlines on which to fasten themselves, in water rich in plankton no deeper than 20 metres.
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In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Animal / endozoite
Althornia crouchii lives within shell of Ostrea edulis
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 2 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 7
Specimens with Barcodes: 14
Species With Barcodes: 1
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked
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