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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Mollusks
  4. Bivalves
  5. Oysters and Allies
  6. Ostreoidea
  7. True Oysters

family

True Oysters

Ostreidae

Includes
5 native 2 introduced 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Ostreinae 3 native
  • Cupped Oysters 2 native
  • Striostreinae
  • Saccostreinae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native true oysters All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica 18,275 observations
  • Olympia Oyster Ostrea lurida 1,249 observations

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