Enigma Oyster

Enigmonia aenigmatica

• Group: Other

A thin, glassy bivalve that lives high in the intertidal zone clamped onto the prop roots of Rhizophora mangroves. It thrives in the brackish, muddy water of mangrove forests, opening to filter feed when the tide covers it.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Pectinida › Anomiidae › Enigmonia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 504264.