Isognomon

(For the tree oyster mushroom, see Pleurotus ostreatus.)

Isognomon
Temporal range:
Live Isognomon sp. under a rock in Kona District, Hawaii
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pteriida
Family: Isognomonidae
Genus: Isognomon
Lightfoot, 1786
Type species
Ostrea perna
Linnaeus, 1767
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Isognoma Lightfoot, 1786 (Isognoma is an alternative original spelling for Isognomon)
  • Isognomon (Anisoperna) Iredale, 1939
  • Isognomon (Isognomon) Lightfoot, 1786
  • Isognomon (Melina) Philipsson, 1788
  • Isogonum Röding, 1798
  • Malleoperna Iredale, 1939
  • Melina Philipsson, 1788
  • Parviperna Iredale, 1939
  • Pedalion Dillwyn, 1817
  • Perna Bruguière, 1789
  • Pernaria Rafinesque, 1815
  • Sutura Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811

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.

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