Magallana, Salvi & Mariottini, 2016

Duangdee, Teerapong, , Kitithorn Sanpanich, , Sherralee S. Lukehurst, Wells, & Fred E., 2025, Clarification of the identity of oysters in the genera Magallana and Saccostrea in the upper Gulf of Thailand based on 16 S rRNA sequences, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 73, pp. 12-33 : 21

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https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2025-0002

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scientific name

Magallana
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Published Magallana View in CoL records in the Gulf of Thailand rejected. Saccostrea dactylena ( Iredale, 1939) was reported by van Gemert (2003) from Ko Samui in the southern Gulf of Thailand. Saxostrea commercialis dactylena Iredale, 1939 was described as an ecomorph from a specimen collected at Lindeman Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. The species is accepted as valid by WoRMS (MolluscaBase eds., 2024) and is included in the genus Magallana . Van Gemert (2003) simply lists S. dactylena without a description or photograph. As there are no validated records from the Gulf of Thailand, the record is rejected.

Magallana gigas ( Thunberg, 1793) View in CoL was reported as Crassostrea gigas ( Thunberg, 1793) View in CoL by Aungtonya et al. (1999), Swennen et al. (2001), Robba et al. (2002), Printrakoon et al. (2008), and Sanpanich (2011). This is the Pacific oyster that has been widely introduced for aquaculture ( Botta et al., 2020). It has also been reported from Singapore, but Tan et al. (2024) conducted a detailed investigation of intertidal oysters in Singapore and concluded the Singapore records of M. gigas View in CoL were based on outdated taxonomy and the species is not present in Singapore. Similarly, the DNA sequences obtained for Magallana View in CoL for the present paper were all M. belcheri View in CoL and M. bilineata View in CoL ; M. gigas View in CoL was not recorded.

Magallana rivularis ( Gould, 1861) was reported as Ostrea rivularis Gould, 1861 by Lynge (1909). This species is considered a taxon inquirendum by WoRMS (MolluscaBase eds., 2024). Photographs of the Lynge specimens were obtained from the Natural History Museum of Denmark but were unidentifiable fragments.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Ostreida

Family

Ostreidae

Genus

Magallana

Loc

Magallana

Duangdee, Teerapong, , Kitithorn Sanpanich, , Sherralee S. Lukehurst, Wells, & Fred E. 2025
2025
Loc

M. belcheri

Trivej & Kesjinda 2018
2018
Loc

Magallana

Salvi & Mariottini 2016
2016
Loc

Ostrea rivularis

Gould 1861
1861
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