Elasmias

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Stylommatophora › Achatinellidae

Collected by: Gessler & Elwood C. Zimmerman; Mangarevan ExpeditionGessler →Mangarevan Expedition →Elwood Curtin Zimmerman →
Collector number: Bottle 976
Date: September 30, 1934
Locality: fare; Loc. 7
Island: Huahine
Region: Leeward Islands, French Polynesia
Coordinates: -16.7116, -151.0360 ± 3,036 m
Record type: Preservedspecimen

2,084 Bishop specimens of Elasmias · collected 1902–2026Species page ›

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On September 30, 1934, Gessler & Elwood C. Zimmerman; Mangarevan Expedition also collected 24+ other specimens.

Still here: Elasmias observed near this locality

This specimen was collected in 1934. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 1 research-grade sighting in the wild within 25 km, most recently on 2023-04-03.

2023-04-03

Maeva, Huahine, French Polynesia

(c) Justin Gerlach, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Cite this specimen

Elasmias. BPBM 142383. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/142383.

Record sources

Last harvested October 27, 2026