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Ostraea cristagalli

Cock's Comb Oyster

2

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1948

First collected

1957

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s1950s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1948 by Carroll J. Lathrop; Carroll J. Lathrop (Kapingamarangi).

From the collection

Ostraea cristagalli, 201873Ostraea cristagalli, 203609