Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay (2004)
Chapter: Appendix K: Scientific and Common Names
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Scientific and Common Names
Scientific Name | Common Name |
OYSTERS |
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Crassostrea angulata | Portuguese oyster |
Crassostrea ariakensis (=rivularis, discoidea, paulucciae) | Suminoe oyster |
Crassostrea gigas | Pacific or Japanese oyster |
Crassostrea rhizophorae | Mangrove oyster |
Crassostrea sikamea | Kumamoto oyster |
Crassostrea virginica | Eastern oyster |
Ostrea angasi | Australian flat oyster |
Ostrea denselamellosa | Asian Milin (meaning densely scaled) oyster |
Ostrea edulis | European flat oyster |
Ostrea puelchana | Argentinean flat oyster |
Ostreola conchaphila | Olympia oyster |
Saccostrea glomerata (=commercialis) | Sydney rock oyster |
Tiostrea chilensis (=lutaria) | New Zealand flat oyster |
OTHER SHELLFISH |
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Ceratostoma inornatum | Japanese oyster drill |
Corbicula fluminea | Asian clam |
Crepidula fornicata | slipper shell |
Cyclope neritea | snail |
Dreissena polymorpha | zebra mussel |
Macoma balthica | Baltic macoma clam |
Macoma spp | macoma clam |
Mercenaria mercenaria | Atlantic hardshell clam or quahog |
Modiolus americanus | American horse mussel |
Mulinia lateralis | dwarf surf clam |
Mya arenaria | softshell clam |
Mytilus edulis | blue mussel |
Mytilus galloprovincialis | Mediterranean mussel |
Palaemonetes pugio | grass shrimp |
Potamocorbula amurensis | Amur River or brackish-water corbula |
Rangia cuneata | Atlantic rangia clam |
Ruditapes decussatus | grooved carpet shell clam |
Ruditapes (=Venerupes) philippinarum | Manila clam |
Tagelus plebeius | stout razor clam |
Urosalpinx cinerea | Atlantic oyster drill |
OYSTER PARASITES AND PATHOGENS |
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Bonamia ostreae | oyster parasite |
Haplosporidium armoricanum | oyster parasite |
Haplosporidium costale | agent of SSO disease |
Haplosporidium nelsoni | agent of MSX disease |
Marteilia maurini | oyster parasite |
Marteilia refringens | agent of Aber disease |
Marteilia sydneyi | agent of QX disease |
Mikrocytos mackini | oyster parasite |
Mikrocytos roughleyi | agent of Australian Winter disease |
Mytilicola intestinalis | European copepod |
Mytilicola orientalis | Japanese parasitic copepod |
Nodardia crassostreae | oyster bacterium |
Ostracoblabe implexa | oyster shell fungus |
Perkinsus marinus | agent of Dermo disease |
Polydora websteri | shell-boring polychaete |
Quahog Parasite X | agent of QPX disease |
Vibrio splendidus | marine bacterium |
Vibrio tapetis | agent of Brown Ring Disease |
FLATWORMS |
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Pseudostylochus ostreophagus | Japanese flatworm |
Stylochus ellipticus | oyster leech (flatworm) |
PLANTS |
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Caulerpa sp. | Mediterranean seaweed |
Chaetoceros calcitrans | diatom |
Eichornia crassipes | water hyacinth |
Sargassum muticum | Japanese seaweed |
Spartina alterniflora | smooth cord grass |
Thalassia testudinum | North American seagrass |
Zostera japonica | Japanese eelgrass |
Zostera marina | eelgrass |
FINFISH |
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Chasmodes bosquianus | striped blenny |
Gobiesox strumosus | skilletfish |
Gobiosoma bosc | naked goby |
Hypsoblennius hentz | feather blenny |
Morone saxatilis | striped bass |
Opsanus tau | oyster toadfish |
