Oyster

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Subregnum: Eumetazoa • Cladus: Bilateria • Superphylum: Protostomia • Phylum: Mollusca • Classis: Bivalvia • Ordo: Ostreoida • Familia: Ostreidae

Different genus contain species considered as Oyster:

Some example of species considered as Oyster:

species Ostrea edulis
species Crassostrea gigas

Pictures

Flat oysters (Ostrea edulis) from Cancale (Brittany, France).
Oyster market at Cancale, France
Oyster, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Pacific oysters
Raw oysters, unopened
Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
Japanese oyster
Oyster fossils

Open oysters

Raw oysters, opened
Green oyster (huître verte) harvested in France
Open oyster (Crassostrea gigas) on a market in Lyon
Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
Crassostrea gigas Marennes-Oléron
Pearls being removed from oysters
How to open an oyster

Oyster shells

Oyster shells in a thousand year old midden
Oyster Shell with Interior Carved as View of Itsukushima Shrine

Oyster cuisine

A meal of oysters
Someone eating an oyster
Oyster knife
Belon oysters at Belon river

Oysters in art

Lithograph "Les Mangeurs d'Huitres" 1825
Drawing "La Capucin Gourmand" 1884
Painting by Osias Beert ca. 1610

Oyster culture

Oyster culture in the Rivière d'Etel, France
Oyster farming in Belon river, Brittany, France
Oyster culture in Belon, France
Oyster banks in the Bay of Vigo, Spain
Working on oysters in Belon
Oysters (Ostrea edulis) in a claire at Belon, Brittany, France
The oyster harvest from the pier at Cancale, Brittany
Oléron
Oléron
little boats of the oyster culturists ~ 1920
Cabanes multicolores d'ostreiculteur
Oyster Fishing 1771
Roman Ostraria
Oyster culture using tiles

Maps

Oyster farming in Normandy
in Great Britain
in Ireland
in Japan

Diagrams

Yearly production in Europe
Yearly production in China
Yearly production global of Crassostrea gigas
Yearly production global of Crassostrea virginica
Yearly production global of Ostrea edulis