Shell Family of Taiwan
Ostreidae 牡蠣科contain38 species in Taiwan,show16 - 30
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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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 Dendostrea inaequivalvis   (Sowerby, 1878)  
 Dendostrea turbinata   (Lamarck, 1878)  
 Lopha cristagalli 鋸齒牡蠣  (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Ostrea circumpicta 疏鱗牡蠣  Pilsbry, 1904  
 Ostrea crista-galli   Linné  
 Ostrea cucullina   Deshayes, 1863  
 Ostrea denselamellosa 拖鞋牡蠣  Lischke, 1869  
 Ostrea dubia   Sowerby, 1871  
 Ostrea glomerata   Gould  
 Ostrea hyotis   Linné  
 Ostrea mordax   Gould  
 Ostrea nigromarginata 黑緣牡蠣  Sowerby, 1860  
 Ostrea palmipes   Sowerby, 1871  
 Ostrea pes-tigris   Hanley  
 Ostrea sinensis   Gmelin