Hyotissa
| Hyotissa, honeycomb oysters | |
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| Three shells of Hyotissa hyotis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Ostreoida |
| Family: | Gryphaeidae |
| Genus: | Hyotissa |
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Hyotissa is a genus of large saltwater oysters, marine bivalve mollusks. Species in this genus are known as honeycomb oysters, or "foam oysters" because under magnification, their shell structure is foam-like.
Species
- Hyotissa hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758) - Giant honeycomb oyster
- Hyotissa inermis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
- Hyotissa mcgintyi (Harry, 1985)
- Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819)
- Hyotissa quercina (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
- Hyotissa sinensis (Gmelin, 1791)
- Hyotissa semiplana (de Sowerby 1825)
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References
- The original paper about the discovery of Hyotissa hyotis in the Florida Keys
- Paula M. Mikkelsen and Rudiger Bieler, 2008, Seashells of Southern Florida: Living Marine mollusks of the Florida Keys and adjacent regions, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, ISBN–10: 0–691–11606–7
- World Register of Marine Species link: Hyotissa (+species list)
- Hyotissa at the National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Universal Biological Indexer