Oyster

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Subregnum: Eumetazoa • Cladus: Bilateria • Superphylum: Protostomia • Phylum: Mollusca • Classis: Bivalvia • Ordo: Ostreoida • Familia: Ostreidae

Different genus contain species considered as Oyster:

• genus Category:Ostrea
• genus Category:Crassostrea
• genus Category:Ostreola
• genus Category:Saccostrea

Some example of species considered as Oyster:

• species Ostrea edulis
• species Crassostrea gigas

Pictures

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  Flat oysters (Ostrea edulis) from Cancale (Brittany, France).
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  Oyster market at Cancale, France
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  Oyster, Mie Prefecture, Japan
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  Pacific oysters
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  Raw oysters, unopened
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  Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
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  Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
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  Japanese oyster
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  Oyster fossils
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Open oysters

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  Raw oysters, opened
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  Green oyster (huître verte) harvested in France
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  Open oyster (Crassostrea gigas) on a market in Lyon
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  Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
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  Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
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  Pearls being removed from oysters
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  How to open an oyster
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Oyster shells

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  Oyster shells in a thousand year old midden
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  Oyster Shell with Interior Carved as View of Itsukushima Shrine

Oyster cuisine

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  A meal of oysters
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  Someone eating an oyster
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  Oyster knife
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  Belon oysters at Belon river
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Oysters in art

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  Lithograph "Les Mangeurs d'Huitres" 1825
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  Drawing "La Capucin Gourmand" 1884
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  Painting by Osias Beert ca. 1610

Oyster culture

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

Maps

Main gallery: Maps of oyster culture.

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  Oyster farming in Normandy
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  in Great Britain
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  in Ireland
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  in Japan

Diagrams

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

Local Images

See also local images:

• en:Image:Oyster(L).jpg
• da:Billede:Østers-ret.jpg
• de:Bild:Austern-2004-12-25 00.jpg
• zh-min-nan:Image:Chhinn-o-a.jpg