Hong Kong Register of Marine Species - Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778)

HKRMS taxon details

Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778)

AphiaID

506710 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506710)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dendostrea Swainson, 1835

Original name

Ostrea cristata Born, 1778

Synonymised names

Alectryonella radix (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Born, I. von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 98 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778). Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2025) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506710 on 2026-08-17

Regional species database citation

Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2026). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506710 on 2026-08-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2010-11-15 18:31:16Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2011-08-02 17:37:26Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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original description (of ) Born, I. von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 98 [details]

context source (HKRMS) Scott, V. P. (2003).A taxonomic distributional and bibliographic checklist of Hong Kong marine bivalve molluscs and research published on them from 1971-2000. In: Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong: Perspectives on Marine Environment Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977-2001 (ed. Morton, B.), pp259-310. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong., available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9789882202429-017 [details]

basis of record Huber, M. (2010). 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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