Isognomon: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Ostreida
- Family
- Isognomonidae
- Genus
- Isognomon
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Isognomon
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Isognomon
(For the tree oyster mushroom, see Pleurotus ostreatus.)
Isognomon is a genus of marine bivalve mollusks which is related to the pearl oysters.
Isognomon is known in the fossil record from the Permian period to the Quaternary period (age range: 254.0 to 0.012 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found all over the world.
...Isognomon in languages:
- Chinese
- 鉗蛤屬 (等盤蛤屬)
- English
- Purse Oysters
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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