Purple Purse Oyster

Isognomon recognitus (Mabille 1895)

body length

• Shelled animal body mass: 22 mm (single measurement)
• McClain Bivalve Sizes: 21 mm (max)
• Femorale: 22 mm

body volume

• Shelled animal body mass: 1.46 cm^3 (single measurement)
• Body mass bivalves: 11.9 cm^3 (average)

geographic distribution

• Panama Species List: Panama
• Ecuador Species List: Ecuador
• Mexico Species List: Mexico
• Gulf of California Species List: gulf of California
• North Pacific Species List: north Pacific

habitat

• World Register of Marine Species: marine benthic

latitude

• OBIS environmental data records: 8.983 degrees (max)
• OBIS environmental data records: 2.96528 degrees (min)

longitude

• OBIS environmental data records: -81.583 degrees (min)
• OBIS environmental data records: -77.3512 degrees (max)

shell height, bivalve

• McClain Bivalve Sizes: 21.4 mm (max)

shell length, bivalve

• McClain Bivalve Sizes: 60 mm (max)

skeleton structure

• World Register of Marine Species: condensed
• World Register of Marine Species: exoskeleton
• World Register of Marine Species: condensed
• World Register of Marine Species: exoskeleton

wet body mass

• Shelled animal body mass: 2.55 g (single measurement)
• Body mass bivalves: 20.6 g (average)