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Common Oyster

Ostrea edulis

Classification

Family
Ostreidae

Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many (but not all) oysters are in the superfamily Ostreoidea.

Distribution

Sander Pieterse · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 4,653France · 1,127United Kingdom · 1,116Germany · 987Spain · 279Italy · 78Belgium · 32Switzerland · 1