Magallana

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Magallana
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Pacific oyster, Magallana gigas
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Ostreida
Family: Ostreidae
Genus: Magallana
Salvi & Mariottini, 2016

Magallana is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) [1] containing some of the most important oysters used for food. Species in this genus have been moved from Crassostrea after it was found to be paraphyletic. [2] [3]

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Species

Extant species are: [1]

Species only known from the fossil record: [1]

Genetics

The genome of Magallana gigas has been recently sequenced [4] revealing an extensive set of genes that enable it to cope with environmental stresses.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2024). "Magallana Salvi & Mariottini, 2016". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  2. Salvi, Daniele; Macali, Armando; Mariottini, Paolo (2014). "Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics of the Bivalve Family Ostreidae Based on rRNA Sequence-Structure Models and Multilocus Species". PLOS ONE. 9 (9): e108696. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108696 . PMC   4177229 . PMID   25250663.
  3. Salvi, Daniele; Mariottini, Paolo (2021). "Revision shock in Pacific oysters taxonomy: the genus Magallana (formerly Crassostrea in part) is well-founded and necessary". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192: 43-58. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa112 . Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  4. Zhang, G.; Fang, X.; Guo, X.; Li, L.; Luo, R.; Xu, F.; Yang, P.; Zhang, L.; Wang, X.; Qi, H.; Xiong, Z.; Que, H.; Xie, Y.; Holland, P. W. H.; Paps, J.; Zhu, Y.; Wu, F.; Chen, Y.; Wang, J.; Peng, C.; Meng, J.; Yang, L.; Liu, J.; Wen, B.; Zhang, N.; Huang, Z.; Zhu, Q.; Feng, Y.; Mount, A.; Hedgecock, D. (2012). "The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation". Nature. 490 (7418): 49–54. Bibcode:2012Natur.490...49Z. doi: 10.1038/nature11413 . hdl: 10722/251007 . PMID   22992520.