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Mytilidae

Mussel

marinebrackishfreshwater

Rafinesque, 1815Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 211 ↗

11

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1926

First collected

2003

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

1920s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1926 by Jens Mathias Ostergaard (Tonga; Tongatapu Group; Tongatabu; Nukualofa).

From the collection

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