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Taxonomy
Ostrea cuccullata was named by Born (1778) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Pliocene-Recent; Indian Ocean.]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Ostrea (Lopha) cucullata by Ladd and Hoffmeister (1945); it was recombined as Crassostrea cucullata by Rao (1969); it was recombined as Gryphaea cucullata by Lumley et al. (1988); it was recombined as Lopha (Lopha) cucullata by Skwarko (1994); it was recombined as Saccostrea cuccullata by Lam and Morton (2009) and Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012).
It was recombined as Ostrea (Lopha) cucullata by Ladd and Hoffmeister (1945); it was recombined as Crassostrea cucullata by Rao (1969); it was recombined as Gryphaea cucullata by Lumley et al. (1988); it was recombined as Lopha (Lopha) cucullata by Skwarko (1994); it was recombined as Saccostrea cuccullata by Lam and Morton (2009) and Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1778 | Ostrea cuccullata Born |
| 1928 | Ostrea cuccullata Vredenburg p. 429 |
| 1945 | Ostrea (Lopha) cucullata Ladd and Hoffmeister |
| 1969 | Crassostrea cucullata Rao |
| 1988 | Gryphaea cucullata Lumley et al. |
| 1994 | Lopha (Lopha) cucullata Skwarko p. g9 |
| 2009 | Saccostrea cuccullata Lam and Morton p. 482 |
| 2012 | Saccostrea cuccullata Coan and Valentich-Scott |
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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.
Saccostrea cuccullata Born 1778
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Miocene to the top of the Holocene or 15.97000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (22 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Miocene | Fiji | Ostrea cucullata (68178) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Egypt | Saccostrea cucullata (96758) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Pakistan | Ostrea cucullata (77445) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt ( Al Bahr al Ahmar) | Ostrea cucullata (42120) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt (Al Buhayrah) | Ostrea cucullata (42119) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Quaternary | Spain | Saccostrea cuccullata (147805) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | France (Alpes Maritimes) | Gryphaea cucullata (50523) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | Ostrea cucullata (101548 101549 122943 122944) | |
| Pleistocene | Mozambique | Ostrea cucullata (122947) | |
| Pleistocene | Sudan | Ostrea cucullata (101414) | |
| Pleistocene | Egypt | Ostrea cucullata (101634) | |
| Calabrian | South Africa | Saccostrea cucullata (173265) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Spain | Saccostrea cucullata (128384) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | Iran | Saccostrea cuccullata (164152) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Saccostrea cuccullata (63317 63320 96708) | |
| Holocene | Hong Kong | Saccostrea cucullata (35033) | |
| Holocene | Thailand | Saccostrea cucullata (67930) |