Spiny Rock Oyster

Saccostrea echinata

• Group: Other

This rock oyster cements itself to pier pilings, rocks and coastal hard surfaces, common across intertidal shores. It even settles onto mariculture cages as part of the fouling community, filtering plankton from the water through its rough spiny shell.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Ostreida › Ostreidae › Saccostrea

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 506736.