Leptachatina

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Stylommatophora › Amastridae

Collected by: Meinecke, William H.; Meinecke, William H.
Date: December 23, 1926
Locality: Hanalei District; Limahuli; "Limahuli Sands. This loc. Probably = Loc. 93780; It had not come in during 1926-28." = 93780-808
Island: Kauaʻi
Region: Kauai County, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates: 22.2096, -159.5789 ± 588 m
Record type: Preservedspecimen

10,669 Bishop specimens of Leptachatina · collected 1864–2026Species page ›

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On December 23, 1926, Meinecke, William H.; Meinecke, William H. also collected 24+ other specimens.

Still here: Leptachatina observed near this locality

This specimen was collected in 1926. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 1 research-grade sighting in the wild within 25 km, most recently on 2002-12-30.

2002-12-30

Limahuli Stream, Kauai County, HI, USA

(c) Phil Liff-Grieff, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Cite this specimen

Leptachatina. BPBM 124311. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/124311.

Record sources

Last harvested October 27, 2026