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Pinna muricata

prickly pen shell

marine

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 207895 ↗

33

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1908

First collected

2003

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Pinna muricata, most mentions first.

  1. 2001

    Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000

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

  2. 2002

  3. 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 · 1 page

  4. 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 · 1 page

  5. 1996

    New records and synonymies of Hawaiian bivalves (Mollusca)

    Paulay, G. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1908 by D. Thaanum; D. Thaanum (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

Pinna muricata, 218908Pinna muricata, 218909Pinna muricata, 218910Pinna muricata, 218911Pinna muricata, 260618Pinna muricata, 260595Pinna muricata, 259633Pinna muricata, 261512Pinna muricata, 252167Pinna muricata, 252168Pinna muricata, 260621Pinna muricata, 260622