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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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
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Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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Not protected. Listed as a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan.
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There are very few wild flat oysters around anymore. They have become rare due to disease and competition with the Pacific oyster. The oyster shells on the beach are usually remnants from very old animals, dead already for many years. The shell has a rather regular shape, in contrast to the Pacific oyster which can have all kinds of sharp protrusions. The flat oyster is edible. For some people it is only a slimy bunch of salt but, according to oyster-lovers, it is the most delicious thing ever.
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