Auckland oyster

Auckland oyster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Ostreoida
Family:	Ostreidae
Genus:	Crassostrea
Species:	C. glomerata
Binomial name
*Crassostrea glomerata* (Gould, 1850)

The Auckland oyster, Crassostrea glomerata, is a species of bivalve mollusc of the family Ostreidae.

References

Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

Types

True	Portuguese Auckland Cockscomb Dredge Eastern European flat Frond Mangrove Olympia Pacific Rock Sydney rock Sponge

Other	Pearl oyster Windowpane Dimydarian Saddle Thorny Tikod amo

Industry

Equipment	Oyster knife Oystering machinery Boats (Bugeye Buy-boat Dredge Pungy Sharpie Skipjack Chesapeake Bay deadrise)

Commerce	Oyster farming Oyster pirate Oyster Wars

Culture

Cuisine	Angels on horseback Hangtown fry Ice cream Omelette Sauce Vermicelli Oysters Bienville Oysters en brochette Oysters Kirkpatrick Oysters Rockefeller Steak and oyster pie Stew

Media	Consider the Oyster The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell The Oyster Dredger

Other	Oyster bar List of oyster bars Oyster festival Oyster Feast

Edible mollusks

Clams	Atlantic jackknife Atlantic surf Geoduck Grooved carpet shell Hard clam Horse Mactra stultorum Blunt gaper Ocean quahog Pacific razor Venus California butterclam Senilia senilis Smooth clam Soft-shell Triangle shell Tuatua Japanese littleneck Razor clam Pod razor Ensis (razor genus) Paphies

Cockles	Common Blood Goolwa New Zealand Sydney

Mussels	Blue Mediterranean New Zealand green-lipped California Brown Asian/Philippine green Date Mytilidae (mussel family)

Oysters	Auckland Eastern Olympia Southern mud Colchester native Pacific Portuguese Windowpane Rock Sydney rock Ostra chilena/Bluff Gillardeau oysters Crassostrea ("true oyster" genus)

Scallops	Atlantic bay Great/king New Zealand Pecten jacobaeus Peruvian calico Yesso Placopecten magellanicus

Sea	Mud-flat Korean mud Chorus giganteus

Land	Cornu aspersum Helix lucorum Helix pomatia

Freshwater	Nerites

Cuttlefish	Spineless Bottletail

Octopus	Common Atlantic white-spotted Big blue Pacific giant Southern red Amphioctopus fangsiao

Squid	New Zealand arrow Japanese flying Humboldt Neon flying

Related topics: Oyster farming; Land snail farming; Gastropod anatomy; Bivalve anatomy

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