Shell Family of Taiwan
Ostreidae 牡蠣科contain38 species in Taiwan，show1 - 15
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Ostreidae 牡蠣科：Shell small- to larged-sized, irregular but commonly higher than long, more or less inequivalve, attaching to hard objects by the umbonal part or whole surface of left valve. Monomyarian adductor muscle scar reniform or hemicircular, placed relatively close to posteroventral margin. Commissural shelf, if defined, relatively narrow. Both valves show foliated structure, though the outermost layer of right valve consists of prismatic calcite. Sometimes hollow chambers filled by chalky deposit occur in the shell. Pseudolamellibranchiate. Heart not pierced by rectum.
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 Alectryonella plicatula   (Gmelin, 1791)  
 Anomiostrea coralliophila   Habe, 1975  
 Crassostrea ariakensis 近江牡蠣  (Fujita in Wakiya, 1929)  
 Crassostrea echinata 棘牡蠣  Quoy et Gaimard, 1835  
 Crassostrea gigas 長牡蠣  (Thunberg, 1793)  
 Crassostrea laperousei   (Schrenk, 1867)  
 Crassostrea lineata   (Roeding, 1798)  
 Crassostrea nigromarginata   Sowerby , 1871  
 Crassostrea nipponica   (Seki, 1934)  
 Crassostrea pestigris   (Hanley, 1846)  
 Crassostrea rivularis   (Gould)  
 Dendostrea crenulifera 波浪牡蠣  (Sowerby, 1871)  
 Dendostrea folia   (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Dendostrea folium 齒緣牡蠣  (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Dendostrea frons   (Linnaeus, 1758)