Crassostrea virginica
American Cupped Oyster
(Gmelin, 1791)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 140657 ↗
16
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1932
First collected
2008
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Crassostrea virginica, most mentions first.
1997
Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic speciesColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 14 pages
2002
Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 7 pages
2004
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2003. Part II. NotesEvenhuis, N.L. & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
2003
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2003: NotesEvenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1932 by Grace Burgess [C.M. Burgess Collection] (Oʻahu).
From the collection
