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Melina ephippium

Round Toothed Oyster

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1925

First collected

1976

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by D.B. Langford & D. Thaanum; D. Thaanum (Ryukyu Islands; Loochoos; Okinawa; Nago; Awa River).

From the collection

Melina ephippium, 252188Melina ephippium, 260867Melina ephippium, 260868Melina ephippium, 260866