Download or read book The American Or Eastern Oyster (Classic Reprint) written by Victor L. Loosanoff and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American or Eastern Oyster The American or, as it is more often called, Eastern oyster is the oyster of commerce of our Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts and is also sold in small quantities on the Pacific coast. Its scientific name is Crassostrea virginica, and it is a true oyster, being a membe r of the Phylum Mollusca, Class Pelecypoda, and Family Ostreidae. True oysters are distinguished by having dissimilar lower and upper shells, by attaching the left shell to a substratum, and by having no traces of foot and byssus in adults. Their shell liga ment is a band between the two valves which may be of triangular shape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.