Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Alternative spelling: Ostrea (Lopha)
Parent taxon: Lophinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Dockery 1982, Ladd and Hoffmeister 1945, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Moore 1987, Oostingh 1935, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980, Woodring 1925 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Abruptolopha, Alectryonella, Arctostrea, Cameleolopha, Lophini, Myrakeenini, Oscillolopha, Pseudoperna, Rastellum
Subtaxa: Lopha (Actinostreon) Lopha (Arctostrea) Lopha (Lopha) Lopha (Rastellum) Lopha blanfordi Lopha chlamydoides Lopha costata Lopha cotteaui Lopha cristagalli Lopha dageensis Lopha dieneri Lopha engelmanni Lopha eos Lopha euzebioi Lopha haidingeriana Lopha lombardi Lopha longifolium Lopha mesenterica Lopha murakamii Lopha papieri Lopha radiata Lopha simplexa Lopha stefaninii Lopha syphax Lopha teranosawensis Lopha vascularis Lopha vulsa Lopha wulanwulaensis Ostrea (Lopha) guppyi Ostrea (Lopha) hyotiformis Ostrea (Lopha) larva Ostrea (Lopha) paramegodon Ostrea (Lopha) sechura
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Eritrea (1), Mayotte (1), Yemen (4)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Fiji (1), Haiti (3), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (2), Mexico (2), Portugal (1), Tanzania (1), United States (3: California)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Ecuador (1), Fiji (12), Haiti (5), Indonesia (3), Italy (2), Libya (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Oligocene of Mexico (3), United States (46: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), Peru (4), United States (10: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (5), Algeria (5), Brazil (4), Egypt (5), France (1), Gabon (1), Hungary (2), Japan (8), Lebanon (1), Peru (2), Poland (1), Portugal (16), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (80: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (4)
• Jurassic of Canada (3: British Columbia), Chile (16), China (3), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (2), France (57), Germany (2), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Kenya (14), Madagascar (2), Morocco (2), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (7), the United Kingdom (11), United States (11: Idaho, Montana, Utah)
• Triassic of Canada (1: Yukon), China (21), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Mexico (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (2), the United Arab Emirates (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California, Oregon), Vietnam (1)
• Permian of China (15), Japan (3)
Total: 460 collections including 487 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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