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Pteria brunnea

Winged Pearl Oyster

marine

(Pease, 1863)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 592585 ↗

6

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 Pteria brunnea, most mentions first.

  1. 1999

    Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, Hawaii

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

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1927 by T.T. Dranga; D. Thaanum (Maui).

From the collection

Pteria brunnea, 281887Pteria brunnea, 260679