"Ostreola " may also be used to refer to also a genus of oyster in the family Ostreidae; however, this name is unaccepted and " Ostrea " should be used instead.
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"Ostrea lurida " is now known to be separate from a similar-appearing species, " Ostrea conchaphila ", which occurs further south, south of Baja California, in Mexico.
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"Ostrea lurida " is now known to be separate from a similar-appearing species, " Ostrea conchaphila ", which occurs further south, south of Baja California, in Mexico.
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Sterostreins A E ( 1, 2, 3a / 3b, 4, and 5 ) have been found in " S . ostrea ", of which sterostrein A showed antimalarial activity and was cytotoxic.
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In the sublittoral zones of the bay lives the burrowing urchin " Echinocardium cordatum " whose hairy shells regularly turn up on the shores, seagrass " Zostera marina " and oysters " Ostrea edulis ".
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A further study made in 2010 investigated whether the Pacific oyster, " Crassostrea gigas ", could act as a carrier or a reservoir of " Bonamia ostreae " and transmit the infection to " Ostrea edulis ".
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At least one species within this genus, " Ostrea lurida ", has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine taxon exploited by the Chumash people as a food source.
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Oyster menus notwithstanding, only four truly different oysters are available in New York City : the Eastern oyster ( Crassostrea virginica ), the Western oyster ( Crassostrea gigas ), the European or Belon ( Ostrea edulis ), and the Kumamoto ( Crassostrea sikamea ).
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Until recently there was some confusion as to whether this more southern oyster species might in fact be the same species as " Ostrea lurida ", the well-known but more northerly " Olympia oyster ", which it resembles in shell size and color.
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Characteristics of the La Jolla Complex include handstones and basin or slab millingstones ( manos and metates ), rough percussion-flaked stone edge tools, flexed burials, and extensive exploitation of shellfish, particularly venus clam ( " Chione " spp . ), scallop ( " Argopecten aequisulcatus " ), mussel ( " Mytilus californianus " ), and oyster ( " Ostrea lurida " ).
