Tridacna gigas
giant clam
IUCN: critically endangered
5
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1926
First collected
1982
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1980s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1926 by J.E. Hoffmeister; Jens Mathias Ostergaard (Tonga; Tongatapu Group; Tongatabu; Nukualofa).
From the collection
