Crassostrea brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819)

Costa, Dimitri de Araujo, Dolbeth, Marina, Prata, Jessica, da Silva, Francisco de Assis, da Silva, Geuba Maria Bernardo, de Freitas, Paulo Ragner Silva, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, de Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa, Massei, Karina & de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva, 2021, Marine invertebrates associated with rhodoliths / maerl beds from northeast Brazil (State of Paraiba), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62736-62736 : 62736

Crassostrea brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-151, CZAP-123), (CZAP-293, CZAP-285); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (4, 3), (2, 3); Location: locality: Seixas and Maceió Beaches; verbatimDepth: (1.5 m, 4.0 m), (1.5 m, 4.0 m)

Distribution

Brazilian coast (Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Alagoas, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina States) ( Amaral and Simone 2014, Gernet et al. 2018, Lima et al. 2017, MolluscaBase 2020e).

Distribution in Paraíba: Paraíba River Estuary ( Lima et al. 2017) and Seixas and Maceió Beaches (New records).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Amaral and Simone 2014): Shell shape cupped or oval; right valve slightly operculum-shaped; left valve, fixed in substrate, larger than right valve (Fig. 8 e). Muscle impression is purple and adductor muscle, oval central in posterior region. Adductor muscle postero-dorsal located, occupying 1/5 of total size of animal; hood present and fully filled by palps and gonads; colour of mantle edge brown. Accessory heart of three branches of similar length, starting from common centre. Palps with margin superior free.