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Pteria lingulata

Winged Oysters

7

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1925

First collected

1947

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1940s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by D.B. Langford & D. Thaanum; D. Thaanum (Ryukyu Islands; Loochoos; Okinawa; Nago).

From the collection

Pteria lingulata, 260731Pteria lingulata, 260732Pteria lingulata, 260736Pteria lingulata, 260735Pteria lingulata, 260733Pteria lingulata, 260734Pteria lingulata, 260737