Atlantic Shell Collection Activity 1. Attempt to find a complete specimen of the following taxa. Identify each shell or organism and list its scientific name and write it in its proper form after the common name on the list below. List the phylum and class of each organism.
Scientific names consist of two parts, hence they are binomial.
The example we will use here is the name of humans. The genus name is always capitalized. The trivial name is never capitalized, even if derived from a proper name. Both are always italicized or underlined to set them apart in other text. This provides a bibliographic trail to search for the original reference.