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Ostrea
Genus of bivalves / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ostrea is a genus of edible oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters.
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Ostrea | |
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A lower valve (the attachment valve) of a shell of Ostrea edulis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Ostreida |
Superfamily: | Ostreoidea |
Family: | Ostreidae |
Genus: | Ostrea (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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