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Tellinidae

Sunset Clams

marinebrackish

Blainville, 1814Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 235 ↗

17

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1926

First collected

2021

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1926 by Jens M. Ostergaard; J.M. Ostergaard (Tonga; Tongatapu Group; Tongatapu; Nukualofa Beach).

From the collection

Tellinidae, 221117Tellinidae, 221151Tellinidae, 222057Tellinidae, 209324Tellinidae, 208289Tellinidae, 258164Tellinidae, 196012Tellinidae, 222656Tellinidae, 253079Tellinidae, 248182Tellinidae, 257846