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Scientific and Common Names
Scientific Name |
Common Name |
OYSTERS |
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Crassostrea angulata |
Portuguese oyster |
Crassostrea ariakensis (=rivularis, discoidea, paulucciae) |
Suminoe oyster |
Crassostrea gigas |
Pacific or Japanese oyster |
Crassostrea rhizophorae |
Mangrove oyster |
Crassostrea sikamea |
Kumamoto oyster |
Crassostrea virginica |
Eastern oyster |
Ostrea angasi |
Australian flat oyster |
Ostrea denselamellosa |
Asian Milin (meaning densely scaled) oyster |
Ostrea edulis |
European flat oyster |
Ostrea puelchana |
Argentinean flat oyster |
Ostreola conchaphila |
Olympia oyster |
Saccostrea glomerata (=commercialis) |
Sydney rock oyster |
Tiostrea chilensis (=lutaria) |
New Zealand flat oyster |
OTHER SHELLFISH |
|
Ceratostoma inornatum |
Japanese oyster drill |
Corbicula fluminea |
Asian clam |
Crepidula fornicata |
slipper shell |
Cyclope neritea |
snail |
Dreissena polymorpha |
zebra mussel |
Macoma balthica |
Baltic macoma clam |
Macoma spp |
macoma clam |
Mercenaria mercenaria |
Atlantic hardshell clam or quahog |
Modiolus americanus |
American horse mussel |
Mulinia lateralis |
dwarf surf clam |
Mya arenaria |
softshell clam |
Mytilus edulis |
blue mussel |
Mytilus galloprovincialis |
Mediterranean mussel |
Palaemonetes pugio |
grass shrimp |
Potamocorbula amurensis |
Amur River or brackish-water corbula |
Rangia cuneata |
Atlantic rangia clam |
Ruditapes decussatus |
grooved carpet shell clam |
Ruditapes (=Venerupes) philippinarum |
Manila clam |
Tagelus plebeius |
stout razor clam |
Urosalpinx cinerea |
Atlantic oyster drill |
OYSTER PARASITES AND PATHOGENS |
|
Bonamia ostreae |
oyster parasite |
Haplosporidium armoricanum |
oyster parasite |
Haplosporidium costale |
agent of SSO disease |
Haplosporidium nelsoni |
agent of MSX disease |
Marteilia maurini |
oyster parasite |
Marteilia refringens |
agent of Aber disease |
Marteilia sydneyi |
agent of QX disease |
Mikrocytos mackini |
oyster parasite |
Mikrocytos roughleyi |
agent of Australian Winter disease |
Mytilicola intestinalis |
European copepod |
Mytilicola orientalis |
Japanese parasitic copepod |
Nodardia crassostreae |
oyster bacterium |
Ostracoblabe implexa |
oyster shell fungus |
Perkinsus marinus |
agent of Dermo disease |
Polydora websteri |
shell-boring polychaete |
Quahog Parasite X |
agent of QPX disease |
Vibrio splendidus |
marine bacterium |
Vibrio tapetis |
agent of Brown Ring Disease |
FLATWORMS |
|
Pseudostylochus ostreophagus |
Japanese flatworm |
Stylochus ellipticus |
oyster leech (flatworm) |
PLANTS |
|
Caulerpa sp. |
Mediterranean seaweed |
Chaetoceros calcitrans |
diatom |
Eichornia crassipes |
water hyacinth |
Sargassum muticum |
Japanese seaweed |
Spartina alterniflora |
smooth cord grass |
Thalassia testudinum |
North American seagrass |
Zostera japonica |
Japanese eelgrass |
Zostera marina |
eelgrass |
FINFISH |
|
Chasmodes bosquianus |
striped blenny |
Gobiesox strumosus |
skilletfish |
Gobiosoma bosc |
naked goby |
Hypsoblennius hentz |
feather blenny |
Morone saxatilis |
striped bass |
Opsanus tau |
oyster toadfish |