Foam Oysters
Gryphaeidae
The Gryphaeidae, common name the foam oysters or honeycomb oysters, are a family of marine bivalve mollusks, and are a kind of true oyster. This family of bivalves is very well represented in the fossil record, however the number of living species is very few.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first
Pycnodonteinae
subfamilyPycnodonteinae
Exogyrinae
subfamilyExogyrinae
Gryphaeinae
subfamilyGryphaeinae
Gryphaeostreinae
subfamilyGryphaeostreinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 245290.