| Hyotissa | |
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| Three shells of Hyotissa hyotis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Ostreida |
| Family: | Gryphaeidae |
| Genus: | Hyotissa Stenzel, 1971 |
| Type species | |
| Mytilus hyotis Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hyotissa is a genus of large saltwater oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Gryphaeidae.[1]
Species in this genus are known as honeycomb oysters, or "foam oysters" because under magnification, their shell structure is foam-like.
Species[edit]
- Hyotissa haitensis (Sowerby, 1850)
- 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)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Hyotissa chemnitzii (Hanley, 1846): synonym of Dendostrea rosacea (Deshayes, 1836)
- Hyotissa quercina (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871): synonym of Hyotissa quercinus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871) (incorrect spelling of specific epithet (quercinus is a noun in apposition))
- Hyotissa thomasi (McLean, 1941): synonym of Hyotissa mcgintyi (Harry, 1985)
References[edit]
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hyotissa Stenzel, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204006 on 2021-03-13
- Stenzel H.B. (1971). Oysters. In, Moore, R.C. (Ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, pt. N, vol. 3, Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence. 3(6): 953–1224
- Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
- 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 0-691-11606-7
- World Register of Marine Species link: Hyotissa (+species list)
- "Hyotissa". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- Universal Biological Indexer