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Pteriidae

pearl oyster

marine

J. E. Gray, 1847 (1820)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 1775 ↗

Photo: (c) Lesley Clements, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) (iNaturalist)

17

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1963

First collected

2021

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

1960s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1963 by Pele Expedition 1963; Mary Eleanor King (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Pteriidae, 221342Pteriidae, 287566