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Dendostrea folium

Foliate Oyster

marine

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 506716 ↗

5

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1925

First collected

1950

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

3 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1950s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by D. Thaanum (Japan; off Imaizumi).

From the collection

Dendostrea folium, 260979Dendostrea folium, 260981Dendostrea folium, 260983Dendostrea folium, 260982Dendostrea folium, 260980