These are Eastern Oysters. Many have a cream color but others are shiny gray in color. Each measures around 13 cm x 4.5 cm x 2.5 cm in size or less.
- Catalog Number:
- 29513
- Object/Specimen Description:
- Specimen Count:
- 7
- Precise Locality:
Wallops Island, Beach
- Locality:
- US Mid Atlantic (PA, NJ, MD, DE, DC, VA, WV)
- Collecting Date:
- 28 Oct 1978
- Collecting Locality:
- North America, United States, Virginia, Accomack County
- Upper Level Taxonomy:
- Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia, Ostreoida, Ostreidae, Crassostreinae