World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) - Magallana sikamea (Amemiya, 1928)

WRiMS taxon details

Magallana sikamea (Amemiya, 1928)

AphiaID

836041 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:836041)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Magallana Salvi & Mariottini, 2016

Original name

Ostrea gigas var. sikamea Amemiya, 1928

Synonymised names

Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya, 1928) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Amemiya, I. (1928). Ecological studies of Japanese oysters, with special reference to the salinity of their habitats. J. Coll. Agric. Univ., Tokyo. 9: 333-382. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Magallana sikamea (Amemiya, 1928). Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=836041 on 2026-09-16

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Magallana sikamea (Amemiya, 1928). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=836041 on 2026-09-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-03-19 20:25:34Z

created

Marshall, Bruce

2015-03-22 19:09:38Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2016-07-08 20:26:57Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2017-10-24 07:53:27Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Amemiya, I. (1928). Ecological studies of Japanese oysters, with special reference to the salinity of their habitats. J. Coll. Agric. Univ., Tokyo. 9: 333-382. [details]

new combination reference Salvi D. & Mariottini P. (2017 [nomenclatural availability: 2016]). Molecular taxonomy in 2D: a novel ITS2 rRNA sequence-structure approach guides the description of the oysters' subfamily Saccostreinae and the genus Magallana (Bivalvia: Ostreidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(2): 263-276., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12455 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Barcode of Life (394 barcodes) (from synonym Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya, 1928))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya, 1928))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya, 1928))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Crassostrea sikamea) (from synonym Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya, 1928))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Magallana sikamea)
To GenBank (1540 nucleotides; 1183 proteins) (from synonym Crassostrea sikamea (Amemiya, 1928))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)