Mercenaria mercenaria
American Hard-shelled Clam
marine
(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 141919 ↗
8
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1927
First collected
1997
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Mercenaria mercenaria, most mentions first.
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 · 2 pages
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 · 1 page
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1990s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1927 by Thomas A. Burch & Beatrice Burch (North Carolina; Beaufort).
From the collection
