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

genus

Flat Oysters

Ostrea

Includes
2 native 1 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Southern Flat Oyster
  • European Flat Oyster introduced
  • Olympia Oyster native
  • Bluff Oyster
  • Crested Oyster presumed native
  • Virescent Oyster present
  • Puelchean Oyster
  • Ostrea compressirostra

Range

United States

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

Most observed native flat oysters All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Olympia Oyster Ostrea lurida 1,249 observations

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