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Ostrea
Flat Oysters
Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Ostreida › Ostreidae
- Collected by
- Lorrin Andrews Thurston & Ted T. Dranga; Lorrin Andrews ThurstonTed E. {should Be D.} Dranga →L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston →
- Collector number
- ex BPBM 200185
- Date
- July 23, 1923
- Locality
- Pearl Harbor Peninsula; Railroad Wharf
- Island
- Oʻahu
- Region
- Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
- Record type
- Preservedspecimen
Collected the same day
On July 23, 1923, Lorrin Andrews Thurston & Ted T. Dranga; Lorrin Andrews Thurston also collected 2 other specimens.
Ostrea observed alive in Hawaiʻi
This specimen was collected in 1923. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 3 research-grade sightings in the wild, most recently on 2026-01-10.
2026-01-10
Waialua, HI, US
(c) hi_ocean, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2018-06-23
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) Rebecca Johnson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2017-05-29
Kaneohe Bay, Patch Reef 11
(c) smithsonian_marinegeo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Observations and photos from iNaturalist, shown only when openly licensed.
Cite this specimen
Ostrea. BPBM 200186. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 37857243. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/200186.
Record sources
- GBIF occurrence 37857243 ↗
- Data license: CC0
- Last harvested October 27, 2026