Crassostrea virginica, American cupped oyster : fisheries, aquaculture

Crassostrea virginica   (Gmelin, 1791)

American cupped oyster

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Bivalvia | Ostreida | Ostreidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range पारिस्थितिकी

; खारा; गहराई सीमा 0 - 79 m (संदर्भ 83435).  Subtropical, preferred 22°C (संदर्भ 107945)

Distribution देश | ऐफ ऐ ओ क्षेत्र | Ecosystems | संयोग | भूमिका

Western Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Introduced in Northeast Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.

Length at first maturity / आकार / Weight / Age

परिपक्व अवधि: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 30.0 cm SHH पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (संदर्भ 271); अधिकतम सूचित उम्र: 2.00 वर्षो (संदर्भ 2823)

Short description आकृति विज्ञान

Diagnostic features: Shell thick and heavy, usually narrow and elongate, but extremely variable in shape. Upper valve flatter, smaller than lower valve; lower valve convex. Shell shape and outline variable. Shell margins undulating straight. Umbones long and curved. Colour: dirty to light grey, internally white with muscle scar deep purple (Ref. 271).

जीवविज्ञान     शब्द संग्रह (उदाहरणार्थ epibenthic)

################ Attached to rocks, other oyster shells, or other hard substrates (Ref. 271). Favors estuaries and embayments with low salinities and are intolerant of prolonged exposure to fresh water or marine conditions. They may either be filter feeders (Ref. 96280) or suspension feeders (Ref. 3248). Found in shallow water of tidal to subtidal depth of fairly constant turbidity and salinity (Ref. 3248) and salt marshes (Ref. 2823). Main sources of food are phytoplankton, suspended detritus particles (Ref. 96280) and bacteria (Ref. 101343). Able to regulate its feeding rates based on differences in size, type and composition of the food source (Ref. 96280).

Life cycle and mating behavior परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Gonochoristic (separate male and females). After external fertilization, the developing larvae or veliger settles to the bottom after a time in the plankton stage. First spawning usually occurs when oyster is two years of age (Ref. 3248).

Main reference संदर्भ | संयोजक | सहयोगीयो

Carpenter, K.E. (ed.). 2002. (संदर्भ 271)

IUCN Red List Status (संदर्भ 130435: Version 2024-2)


CITES status (संदर्भ 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (संदर्भ 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

मात्स्यिकी: व्यापारिक; जलीयकृषि: व्यापारिक
FAO - जलीयकृषि: production, species profile; मात्स्यिकी: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

साधन

अधिक जानकारी

Trophic Ecology
Food items (preys)
संघटक आहार
आहार खपत
परभक्षी
पारिस्थितिकी
Population dynamics
बाढ़
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
बहुतायत

इंटरनेट स्रोत

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(जलीयकृषि: species profile; मात्स्यिकी: species profile; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, खोज) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 7.7 - 27.5, mean 23.5 (based on 794 cells).
Prior r = 0.72, 95% CL = 0.47 - 1.07, Based on 1 full stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (संदर्भ 71543): Low to moderate vulnerability (26 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (संदर्भ 125649): High vulnerability (57 of 100).
Price category (संदर्भ 80766): Low.
Nutrients :  Calcium = 149 [71, 228] mg/100g; Iron = 8.53 [1.95, 15.11] mg/100g; Protein = 9.88 [8.64, 11.12] %; Omega3 = 0.313 [0.202, 0.423] g/100g; Selenium = 61 [50, 72] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 2.04 [0.56, 3.51] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.