The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·606017SpeciesMollusca4 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Molluscs
  3. ›Bivalves
  4. ›Autobranchia
  5. ›Pteriomorphia
  6. ›Oysters and Allies
  7. ›Ostreoidea
  8. ›True Oysters
  9. ›Cupped Oysters
  10. ›Magallana
Kumamoto Oyster
Plate 1 of 1. (c) Sarka Martinez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Sarka Martinez · via iNaturalist

Kumamoto Oyster

Magallana sikamea

Magallana sikamea, also known as the Kumamoto oyster or colloquially the Kumie or Kumo, is a species of edible true oyster native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It has been introduced to many other locations to be farmed commercially for food.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Magallana sikamea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 606017.