Dendrostrea sandvicensis

Hawaiian Oyster

Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Ostreida › Ostreidae

Collected by: DeFelice, Ralph & Stephen Coles; DeFelice, Ralph & Stephen ColesStephen L. Coles →Ralph C. DeFelice →
Date: March 21, 1996
Locality: Hawaiian Islands; Oahu; Pearl Harbor; Sta. 13; Northwest of Ford Island, near U.S.S. "Utah" Memorial
Island: Oʻahu
Region: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
Record type: Preservedspecimen

7 Bishop specimens of Dendrostrea sandvicensis · collected 1996–1996Species page ›

Collected the same day

On March 21, 1996, DeFelice, Ralph & Stephen Coles; DeFelice, Ralph & Stephen Coles also collected 24+ other specimens.

Dendostrea sandvichensis observed alive in Hawaiʻi

This specimen was collected in 1996. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 1 research-grade sighting in the wild, most recently on 2018-06-23.

2018-06-23

Honolulu County, US-HI, US

(c) Rebecca Johnson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

Observations and photos from iNaturalist, shown only when openly licensed.

Cite this specimen

Dendrostrea sandvicensis. BPBM 255145. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 36357117. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/255145.

Record sources

GBIF occurrence 36357117 ↗
Data license: CC0
Last harvested October 27, 2026