Isognomonidae - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Isognomonidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

of marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

bivalve mollusks. They are related to the pearl oyster

Pearl oyster

Pearl oysters are saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Pinctada in the family Pteriidae. They have a strong inner shell layer composed of nacre, also known as "mother of pearl"....

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Some of the species in the family are known as tree oysters because they are edible and grow on mangrove

Mangrove

Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics – mainly between latitudes N and S...

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Taxonomy

Crenatula
- Crenatula modiolaris Lamarck, 1819
Isognomon
Isognomon
Isognomon is a genus of marine bivalve mollusks which are related to the pearl oysters.Some of the species in the genus are known as tree oysters because they are edible, and grow on mangrove roots.-Species:...

Lightfoot, 1786

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