Giant honeycomb oyster explained

The giant honeycomb oyster (Hyotissa hyotis) is a very large saltwater oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk.

Species in this family are known as honeycomb oysters or "foam oysters" because under magnification, their shell structure is foam-like.

Like most bivalves, the giant honeycomb oyster is a filter feeder.

Habitat and range

Its native range is in deeper water in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. It has however also been found recently as an accidentally introduced species in the Florida Keys.^[1]

Bibliography

• 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,

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20060903071929/http://www.ummz.umich.edu/mollusks/people/diarmaid/beilerMollRes.pdf Rüdiger Bieler, Paula M. Mikkelsen, Taehwan Lee & Diarmaid Ó Foighil, « Discovery of the Indo-Pacific oyster Hyotissa hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Florida Keys (Bivalvia : Gryphaeidae) », Molluscan Research, vol. 24, 2004, p. 149–159