African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Ostrea forskahlii Gmelin, 1791

AfReMaS name details

Ostrea forskahlii Gmelin, 1791

AphiaID

542100 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:542100)

Classification

Status

uncertain > unassessed

Rank

Species

Parent

Ostrea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Ostrea forskahlii Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Ostrea forskali [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Saccostrea forskahlii (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3336 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ostrea forskahlii Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=542100 on 2025-11-15

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Ostrea forskahlii Gmelin, 1791. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=542100 on 2025-11-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-11-10 15:53:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-11-10 16:07:33Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2025-09-01 20:18:37Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3336 [details]

taxonomy source Tan, S.K., Wells, F.E., Tan, K.S., Lukehursts, S.S., Morgan, M. & Fotedar, S. (2025). Identity of the enigmatic oyster Saccostrea cuccullata (Bivalvia: Ostreidae). <em>Journal of Mollusca Studies.</em> 91: 1-16.
page(s): 10 [details]

basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Ostrea forskali [sic])