Oyster

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Mollusca • Classis: Bivalvia • Ordo: Ostreoida • Familia: Ostreidae

Different genus contain species considered as Oyster:

Some example of species considered as Oyster:

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Open oyster (Crassostrea gigas) on a market in Lyon	Belon oysters at Belon river	Oyster market at Cancale, France	Oyster, Mie Prefecture, Japan
A meal of oysters	Someone eating an oyster	Oyster knife	Raw oysters, opened
Pacific oysters	Raw oysters, unopened	Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron	Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron	Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron	Japanese oyster	Pearls being removed from oysters
How to open an oyster	Litograph "Les Mangeurs d'Huitres" 1825	Drawing "La Capucin Gourmand" 1884	Painting by Osias Beert ca. 1610
Oyster fossils	Oyster shells in a thousand year old midden	Green oyster (huître verte) harvested in France

Oyster culture in the Rivière d'Etel, France	Oyster farming in Belon river, Brittany, France	Oyster culture in Belon, France	Oyster banks in the Bay of Vigo, Spain
Working on oysters in Belon	Oysters (Ostrea edulis) in a claire at Belon, Brittany, France	The oyster harvest from the pier at Cancale, Brittany	Oléron
Oléron	little boats of the oyster culturists ~ 1920		Cabanes multicolores d'ostreiculteur
Working on oysters	Oyster Fishing 1771	Roman Ostraria	Oyster culture using tiles

Oyster farming in Normandy

in Great Britain

in Ireland

in Japan

Yearly production in Europe	Yearly production in China	Yearly production global of Crassostrea gigas	Yearly production global of Crassostrea virginica
Yearly production global of Ostrea edulis