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Contrary to popular belief oysters do not produce pearls, mollusks do. The genus Pinctada is the primary producer of pearls.
Theoretically any mollusk can produce pearls, but bivalve mollusks, from the family Bivalvia (mollusks with two shells attached by a hinge) produce what are considered nacreous pearls prized and used in jewelry.
Gastropods such as those from the family Haliotis also produce "pearls" that are actually calcareous concretions, not nacreous pearls. An example would be abalone pearls.
---- Nov 28 2009
Oysters do produce pearls! I have millions of crassostrea Gigas (Pacific Oyster - once called the Japanese Oyster, minutes walk from my house - through Oyster farms and their release of spat into the local environment. Over the years, I've collected part of a film container of "Pearls" from these oysters, when harvested from the beach. I've broken a tooth, bighting down on one pearl.
----------- British Columbia, Canada!
---- Nov 28th 2009
The Crassostrea gigas produces non-nacreous calcareous concretions as this shell is non-nacreous. Pearls, by definition, are nacreous.
Oysters do not produce pearls.
Do oysters make small white things that LOOK like pearls which THOUSANDS of women happily wear around their necks????
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