The ostra de mangle (Crassostrea rhizophora) is also endemic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magdalena-Santa Marta mangroves] Reference

What is the lifespan of Crassostrea viginica, the local oyster?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

They fall into two groups: flat (Ostrea) and cup-shaped (Crassostrea).    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Coastal Mariculture] Reference

For the oyster Crassostrea virginica, bacterial by-products have been demonstrated to induce metamorphosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Coastal Mariculture] Reference

This is followed by the Kumamoto oyster (Crassostrea sikamea) in Japan, a tiny thimble-shaped oyster grown in the Pacific Northwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oysters Come Back in Vogue] Reference

In the U.S., the most widely grown oyster is the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), which is farmed down the East Coast and Chesapeake Bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oysters Come Back in Vogue] Reference

These ecosystems sustain billions of worms, protozoa, barnacles (Balanus spp.), oysters (Crassostrea spp.), sponges, and other invertebrates, some of which live attached to the roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mangrove swamp] Reference

A number of snail species (Anomalocardia brasiliana, Mytella falcata, and Crassostrea rhyzophorae) found in this ecoregion have a high socio-economic importance, as they are pivotal resources for a large human population that lives near mangroves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rio Piranhas mangroves] Reference

Local materials (used car tires, bamboo) and local marine skills can be used for the artisanal farming of mangrove oysters (Crassostrea rhizophorae), which grow naturally in coastal waters on the roots of the red mangrove tree (Rhizophorae mangle).    From Wordnik.com.  [28. Non-toxic aquarium fish-catching] Reference

Some invertebrates appear closely related to mangroves and could be considered typical; for example, the mangrove tree crab (Aratus pisonii) and the crabs (Goniopsis cruentata and Ucides cordatus), the bivalve (Crassostrea rhizophorae) and many sponges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coastal Venezuelan mangroves] Reference

There are two main kinds of oysters found in the British Isles: the flat, or native, oyster (Ostrea edulis), most famously grown among the beds in Whitstable, Colchester and Helford; and the rock, or Pacific, oyster (Crassostrea gigas), which was introduced commercially into Britain in the 1960s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oysters Come Back in Vogue] Reference

Crassostrea virginica, allowing cooks to whip up oyster dressing at Thanksgiving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Crassostrea virginica -- are grown for 18 to 30 months before they're ready to sell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slashfood] Reference

Love oysters, but don't know the difference between Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea virginica?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The main species in the bay is Crassostrea virginica, known alternatively as the Eastern or American oyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [News-Letter] Reference

Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigaswas) are farmed at more than 100 sites along Tasmania's north and east coasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Hydrocarbon Concentrations in the American Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) in Laguna de Terminos, Campeche, Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem] Reference

Histopathological Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Heavy Metals on the American Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, from Tabasco, Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf of Mexico large marine ecosystem] Reference

Studies suggest the American oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is able to survive for some time in waters that are entirely devoid of oxygen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

That is still a far cry from the late 1880s, when the bay held billions of the oysters, Crassostrea virginica, and watermen harvested about 25 million bushels annually.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed] Reference

The absence of trnC and trnN genes and duplicated or split rRNA genes from the C. hongkongensis genome is a completely novel feature not previously reported in Crassostrea species.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Wilker and his colleagues studied the common Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, which the researchers collected from the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory on the South Carolina coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

One long-debated plan has been to bring an Asian species of oyster to the Bay - specifically, Crassostrea ariakensis, or the Suminoe oyster - in the hopes that it will fare better than its western relative.    From Wordnik.com.  [News-Letter] Reference

The French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has announced a ban on exports of Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas) from certain areas experiencing abnormal mortalities in oysters along the Mediterranean coast and Atlantic areas of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fishupdate.com] Reference

There exists significant codon bias, favoring codons ending in A or T and against those ending with C. Pair analysis of genome rearrangements showed that the rearrangement distance is great between C. gigas-C. hongkongensis and C. virginica, indicating a high degree of rearrangements within Crassostrea.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

A striking finding of this study is that a DNA segment containing four tRNA genes (trnk1, trnC, trnQ1 and trnN) and two duplicated or split rRNA gene (rrnL5 'and rrnS) are absent from the genome, when compared with that of two other extant Crassostrea species, which is very likely a consequence of loss of a single genomic region present in ancestor of C. hongkongensis.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Kumamoto Oyster (Crassostrea sikamea).    From Wordnik.com.  [Oysters Come Back in Vogue] Reference

Atlantic Oyster (Crassostrea virginica).    From Wordnik.com.  [Oysters Come Back in Vogue] Reference

Pacific or Rock Oyster (Crassostrea gigas).    From Wordnik.com.  [Oysters Come Back in Vogue] Reference

Crassostrea ariakensis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Invasive Species Weblog] Reference