Ostrea

Flat Oysters

Animalia › Mollusca › Ostreidae

Collected by: Pele Expedition 1959; M. E. KingMary Eleanor King →Pele Expedition 1959 →
Date: October 16, 1959
Locality: Keehi Lagoon, Off
Island: Oʻahu
Region: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates: 21.3157, -157.9053
Record type: Preservedspecimen

76 Bishop specimens of Ostrea · collected 1917–2000Species page ›

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On October 16, 1959, Pele Expedition 1959; M. E. King also collected 24+ other specimens.

Still here: Ostrea observed near this locality

This specimen was collected in 1959. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 2 research-grade sightings in the wild within 25 km, most recently on 2018-06-23.

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 261685. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 37855740. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/261685.

Record sources

GBIF occurrence 37855740 ↗
Data license: CC0
Last harvested October 27, 2026