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Ostrea (Alectryonia)

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

Taxonomy
Alectryonia was named by Fischer de Waldheim (1807).

It was reranked as Ostrea (Alectryonia) by White (1889), Martin (1922), DuBar (1958), da Silva Forti (1969).

It was assigned to Ostrea by White (1889), Martin (1922), DuBar (1958), da Silva Forti (1969); and to Ostreidae by Papier (2001).

Species lacking formal opinion data
Alectryonia carinata, Alectryonia falcata, Alectryonia gregaria, Alectryonia haidingeriana, Alectryonia hastellata, Alectryonia johnsoni, Alectryonia marchi, Alectryonia marshi, Alectryonia pectinata, Alectryonia rectangularis, Alectryonia rectangularis, Alectryonia rhodani, Alectryonia tinierei, Alectryonia tinieri, Ostrea afghanica, Ostrea agglomerans, Ostrea agnevoensis, Ostrea ajatensis, Ostrea alepidota, Ostrea algoensis, Ostrea alicula, Ostrea alpina, Ostrea alternans, Ostrea alvarezi, Ostrea alveatula, Ostrea amekiensis, Ostrea anomala, Ostrea anomioides, Ostrea antecursor, Ostrea aquila, Ostrea arcotensis, Ostrea arcuata, Ostrea arkotensis, Ostrea aschersoni, Ostrea astrocina, Ostrea athersoni, Ostrea atherstonei, Ostrea atherstonei, Ostrea aurea, Ostrea aviola, Ostrea axillata, Ostrea bella, Ostrea bersonensis, Ostrea blanipiedi, Ostrea boriesi, Ostrea bougeoisii, Ostrea bouguignanti, Ostrea bouillei, Ostrea bousingaulti, Ostrea boussaci, Ostrea boussingaultii, Ostrea brevifronta, Ostrea broughtoni, Ostrea brucei, Ostrea bryani, Ostrea brycei, Ostrea bryzophila, Ostrea caboblanquensis, Ostrea carica, Ostrea cariosa, Ostrea cartenniensis, Ostrea chillyensis, Ostrea christagalli, Ostrea cimana, Ostrea cizancourti, Ostrea cloti, Ostrea cochlear, Ostrea compressirostra, Ostrea compressirostra, Ostrea compressirostra, Ostrea compressirostrea, Ostrea compressirostris, Ostrea conirostris, Ostrea corrugata, Ostrea couloni, Ostrea coxi, Ostrea crassissima, Ostrea crenulimargo, Ostrea cucullaris, Ostrea cucullata, Ostrea cunabula, Ostrea cymbula, Ostrea daubrei, Ostrea democraciana, Ostrea densata, Ostrea denselamellosa, Ostrea denselamellosa, Ostrea denticulifera, Ostrea digitalina, Ostrea digitata, Ostrea digitilina, Ostrea disparilis, Ostrea disparilis, Ostrea dissimilaris, Ostrea distans, Ostrea dunveganensis, Ostrea duvergieri, Ostrea edule, Ostrea edulis, Ostrea edulis, Ostrea edulis, Ostrea elhuyari, Ostrea elongata, Ostrea entreriana, Ostrea eothirsae, Ostrea equatoralis, Ostrea equatorialis, Ostrea erina, Ostrea escondidia, Ostrea esutoruensis, Ostrea eversa, Ostrea falco, Ostrea fetkei, Ostrea fimbriata, Ostrea fimbriata, Ostrea flabelloides, Ostrea flabellulaeformis, Ostrea flabellulaeformis, Ostrea foliiformis, Ostrea frithi, Ostrea gackhensis, Ostrea garumnica, Ostrea geraldjohnsoni, Ostrea gierharti, Ostrea gilbertharrisi, Ostrea gilei, Ostrea gingensis, Ostrea glabra, Ostrea glandiformis, Ostrea glauconoides, Ostrea goldfussi, Ostrea granensis, Ostrea granensis, Ostrea gravitesta, Ostrea gregaria, Ostrea gryphoides, Ostrea guaranitica, Ostrea hyotis, Ostrea idriaensis, Ostrea idriaensis, Ostrea idrianensis, Ostrea idrianesis, Ostrea ingens, Ostrea iphigeniae, Ostrea iridaensis, Ostrea iridaensis, Ostrea irregularis, Ostrea itoigawai, Ostrea jogjakartenss, Ostrea kamehameha, Ostrea kamtschatica, Ostrea karikalensis, Ostrea kochae, Ostrea koroensis, Ostrea kovatschensis, Ostrea laeviuscula, Ostrea lamellosa, Ostrea lamellosa, Ostrea lamellosa, Ostrea lamellose, Ostrea lapillicola, Ostrea larimarginata, Ostrea latiareata, Ostrea latissima, Ostrea leveretti, Ostrea leymeriei, Ostrea liassica, Ostrea limaeformis, Ostrea lineolata, Ostrea linguatula, Ostrea lixula, Ostrea locklini, Ostrea longiscula, Ostrea longiuscula, Ostrea lotenoensis, Ostrea lugardi, Ostrea lugubris, Ostrea mackayi, Ostrea mairei, Ostrea makarovi, Ostrea malachitensis, Ostrea maradensis, Ostrea marklini, Ostrea matronensis, Ostrea maxima, Ostrea mcnairyensis, Ostrea megodon, Ostrea meili, Ostrea meridionalis, Ostrea meridonalis, Ostrea mesentrica, Ostrea mikulitschi, Ostrea milleti, Ostrea mitsuiana, Ostrea monmouthensis, Ostrea montensis, Ostrea monticaprilis, Ostrea mordax, Ostrea multicostata, Ostrea multilirata, Ostrea neuquina, Ostrea nippona, Ostrea normalis, Ostrea occidentalis, Ostrea offreti, Ostrea oitensis, Ostrea oneatensis, Ostrea oppenheimi, Ostrea orbignyi, Ostrea orientalis, Ostrea orientalis, Ostrea ornata, Ostrea oviola, Ostrea owenana, Ostrea palaemon, Ostrea pannucea, Ostrea papyracea, Ostrea patina, Ostrea pauciplicata, Ostrea pellucida, Ostrea penegemmea, Ostrea penjicus, Ostrea perirregularis, Ostrea pes-elephanti, Ostrea petrosal, Ostrea pharaonis, Ostrea pharaonum, Ostrea pharaonum, Ostrea pharaonus, Ostrea pitniakensis, Ostrea plicata, Ostrea plicata, Ostrea popaensis, Ostrea pracasensis, Ostrea praehongirostris, Ostrea pretigris, Ostrea prona, Ostrea pseudomarginidentata, Ostrea pseudopunica, Ostrea rectangularis, Ostrea redhousiensis, Ostrea reili, Ostrea reili, Ostrea relli, Ostrea restinensis, Ostrea retangularis, Ostrea ricardi, Ostrea riograndensis, Ostrea rionegrensis, Ostrea rionegrensis, Ostrea rivularis, Ostrea rosacea, Ostrea rouardti, Ostrea rouaulti, Ostrea rubradiata, Ostrea rudicula, Ostrea sacyi, Ostrea sakaryensis, Ostrea sallomacensis, Ostrea sandvichensis, Ostrea scuplturata, Ostrea scypax, Ostrea scyphax, Ostrea selaeformis, Ostrea selleformis, Ostrea semitabulata, Ostrea semmesi, Ostrea sicardi, Ostrea sinuosa, Ostrea skidegatensis, Ostrea sloani, Ostrea sorlinensis, Ostrea stanleyi, Ostrea strangulata, Ostrea strictiplicata, Ostrea strigicula, Ostrea strigulecula, Ostrea subitus, Ostrea sublingua, Ostrea suborbicularis, Ostrea subradiata, Ostrea subspatulata, Ostrea sylvaerupis, Ostrea tehuelcha, Ostrea thaanumi, Ostrea thurmanni, Ostrea tigiliana, Ostrea titan, Ostrea trachydiscus, Ostrea trigona, Ostrea tuberculifera, Ostrea turbinata, Ostrea type 1, Ostrea type 2, Ostrea ulugqatica, Ostrea unguis, Ostrea verleti, Ostrea vesicolosa, Ostrea vespertina, Ostrea vespertina, Ostrea vigrata, Ostrea villie, Ostrea virgata, Ostrea virletti, Ostrea vulselloides, Ostrea westi, Ostrea wilckensis, Ostrea wullerstorfi, Ostrea wullerstorfii, Ostrea xenophonti

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1807Alectryonia Fischer de Waldheim
1889Ostrea (Alectryonia) White p. 444
1922Ostrea (Alectryonia) Martin p. 480
1958Ostrea (Alectryonia) DuBar p. 157
1969Ostrea (Alectryonia) da Silva Forti p. 75
2001Alectryonia Papier

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
RankNameAuthor
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
OstreioniFerussac 1822
OstreataFerussac 1822
superorderOstreiformiiFerussac 1822
orderOstreida(Fërussac 1822)
suborderOstreidina(Ferussac 1822)
superfamilyOstreoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyOstreidaeRafinesque 1815
genusOstreaLinnaeus 1758
subgenusAlectryonia(Fischer de Waldheim 1807)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subg. †Ostrea (Alectryonia) Fischer de Waldheim 1807
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Alectryonia clotbeyi Bellardi 1854
Alectryonia ludoviciana Harris 1919
Alectryonia martinsi Archiac 1850
Alectryonia parasitica Krumbeck 1913
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitef
Environment: hypersaline, marine, brackishf
Locomotion: stationaryf
Attached: yesf
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: suspension feederf
Vision: blindc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:24:48
Modified: 2009-08-18 19:08:01
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Tuvalian to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 233.60000 to 3.60000 Ma

Collections (79 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tuvalian233.6 - 227.3USA (Nevada) Alectryonia sp. (201916)
Lacian227.3 - 215.38Indonesia (Maluku) Alectryonia parasitica (204327 204486 204487 204489)
Norian227.3 - 205.7Indonesia (Maluku) Alectryonia parasitica (204488)
Rhaetian205.7 - 201.4France Alectryonia haidingeriana (39361 39362 39363 39364 39365 39366 39367)
Early/Lower Hettangian201.4 - 199.5France Alectryonia rhodani, Alectryonia tinieri (39215)
Planorbis201.4 - 199.5France Alectryonia rhodani, Alectryonia tinierei (39379)
Sinemurian199.5 - 192.9Canada (Yukon) Alectryonia sp. (34220)
Late/Upper Toarcian - Aalenian180.4 - 170.9France Alectryonia sp. (51501)
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3France Alectryonia marchi (38740) Alectryonia marshi (38737)
Early/Lower Callovian165.3 - 161.5France (Bourgogne) Alectryonia sp. (36451)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France Alectryonia sp. (13151)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Poland Ostrea gregaria (91906)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8France Alectryonia sp. (13113 13126)
Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian154.8 - 145.06Tanzania Alectryonia sp. (35570)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) Alectryonia hastellata (23902) Alectryonia hastellata, Alectryonia gregaria (23887)
Berriasian143.1 - 137.05Mexico (Durango) Alectryonia sp. (2154)
Valanginian137.05 - 132.6Switzerland Alectryonia rectangularis (2245)
Valanginian - Hauterivian137.05 - 125.77Tanzania Alectryonia rectangularis (79024 79263)
Hauterivian132.6 - 125.77Portugal Alectryonia rectangularis (65740)
Late/Upper Aptian119.57 - 113.2Algeria Alectryonia rectangularis (40787)
Late/Upper Aptian119.57 - 113.2Serbia Alectryonia rectangularis (67546)
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5USA (Texas) Alectryonia carinata (58637)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0Argentina (Santa Cruz) Ostrea arcotensis (235519)
Campanian83.6 - 72.2Mexico (Coahuila de Zaragoza) Alectryonia falcata (88232)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Türkiye Alectryonia diluviana (34586)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0India (Tamil Nadu) Alectryonia pectinata (46507)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Iran Alectryonia pectinata (87113)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Niger Alectryonia martinsi (184349)
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07France Ostrea boriesi (59788 59789)
Ypresian - Lutetian56.0 - 41.03USA (Alabama) Alectryonia johnsoni (81179 81186 81188 81189 81190 81191 83757 83802 89849 92783)
Lutetian48.07 - 41.03USA (Alabama) Alectryonia ludoviciana (81242 81256)
Lutetian48.07 - 41.03USA (South Carolina) Alectryonia ludoviciana (5342) Lopha ludoviciana (32901 52344)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71Egypt Ostrea clotbeyi (41916 41917 42051 42052 79674)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71Libya Ostrea clotbeyi (42134)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71USA (South Carolina) Alectryonia ludoviciana (5344 5345 5353)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71USA (Alabama) Alectryonia johnsoni (81282)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Libya Ostrea clotbeyi (42137)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Italy Ostrea martinsi (78617)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Egypt Alectryonia clotbeyi (79700) Ostrea cloti (86659)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Venezuela (Sucre) Ostrea caboblanquensis (41543 41544 41545 41552 41553 41555 41572)