MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Ostrea chilensis Küster, 1844

ERMS taxon details

Ostrea chilensis Küster, 1844

AphiaID

397160 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397160)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ostrea Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Ostrea chilensis Küster, 1844

Synonymised names

Ostrea lutaria F. W. Hutton, 1873 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Tiostrea lutaria (F. W. Hutton, 1873) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Küster, H.C. (1844). Inhalt [(on wrapper) list of species depicted on plates included in Liefrung 45; pl. 13, however, evidently issued in Liefrung 46, 1844]. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz 7 (1) 45. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ostrea chilensis Küster, 1844. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397160 on 2026-05-26

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Ostrea chilensis Küster, 1844. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397160 on 2026-05-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2009-06-04 05:46:50Z

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2010-09-23 10:34:21Z

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Huber, Markus

2013-04-08 06:40:22Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2015-01-16 10:00:55Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2018-11-23 00:55:36Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2023-10-20 04:16:26Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description Küster, H.C. (1844). Inhalt [(on wrapper) list of species depicted on plates included in Liefrung 45; pl. 13, however, evidently issued in Liefrung 46, 1844]. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz 7 (1) 45. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. [details]

original description (of Ostrea lutaria F. W. Hutton, 1873) Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1352868 [details]

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]

basis of record Valentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp.
page(s): 149, pl. 48 [details]

basis of record Marshall, B. A. (2002). Authorship and date of publication of Ostrea chilensis Philippi in Küster, 1844 (Bivalvia: Ostreidae). The Nautilus. 116(2): 66-67., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8270598 [details]

additional source Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Chanley, P. & Dinamani, P. (1980). Comparative descriptions of some oyster larvae from New Zealand and Chile, and a description of a new genus of oyster, Tiostrea. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 14: 103–120. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1980.9515851 [details]

additional source Ó Foighil, D., Marshall, B. A., Hilbish, T. J. & Pino, M. A. (1999). Trans-Pacific range extension by rafting is inferred for the flat oyster Ostrea chilensis. Biological Bulletin. 196: 122–126., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1542557
page(s): 122 [details]

additional source Küster, H. C. (ed.). (1843-1868). Mollusca Acephala. Kopflose Mollusken. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. 7(1): 1–84, pls 1–14, 2b–d, 6b. [pp. 1-8, pls 2-4, 9-11 (1843); 9-24, pls 1, 2b, 5, 8, 12-13 (1844); pl. 7 (1845); 25-40, pls 2c, 2d, 14 (1848); pls 6, 6b (1858); 41-84 (1868)]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34259769
page(s): 74, pl. 13, figs 7-8 [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in RoR) [details]