American Oyster

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• Description

  This shellfish is easy to identify because it has an irregular shaped greyish shell with platelike growth ridges.

• Habitat

  Bays and Estuaries, Beaches & Sand Dunes, Coastal Zone, Mudflats, Salt Marshes, Sandflats

• Interesting Fact

  Oyster larvae are incapable of swimming against a current, so they maintain their location in the estuary by dropping to the bottom when the tide is ebbing and rising to the top with the incoming tide.