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Ostrea

flat oysters

marine

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 138298 ↗

76

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1917

First collected

2000

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Ostrea, most mentions first.

  1. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 9 pages

  2. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  3. 1996

    New records and synonymies of Hawaiian bivalves (Mollusca)

    Paulay, G. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  4. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  5. 2006

    Inventory of intertidal and shallow subtidal marine invertebrates at Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Moloka`i, Hawai`i

    Godwin, S. & Bolick, H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  6. 2002

    Index to the Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for the years 1994 through 2000

    Evenhuis, N.L. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  7. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  8. 2000

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2000: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1917 by E.G.B. Moss; Mrs. A.E. Moss (New Zealand; South Island; Lyttleton).

From the collection

Ostrea, 198708Ostrea, 204783Ostrea, 209252Ostrea, 209364Ostrea, 209376Ostrea, 218921Ostrea, 218922Ostrea, 219157Ostrea, 219162Ostrea, 65794Ostrea, 67349Ostrea, 198727