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Pacific Oyster
Magallana gigas
The Pacific oyster, Japanese oyster or Miyagi oyster (Magallana gigas) (previously Crassostrea gigas), is an oyster native to the Pacific coast of Asia. It has become an introduced species in North America, Australia, Europe, and New Zealand.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 605992.