Assiminea

Sentinel Snails

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Assimineidae

Collected by: Gessler & St. John {Harold}; Mangarevan ExpeditionGessler →St. John {Harold} →Mangarevan Expedition →
Collector number: Bottle 1091
Date: October 13, 1934
Locality: South slope Pahio-Temanu Ridge
Island: Bora Bora
Region: Leeward Islands, French Polynesia
Coordinates: -16.5024, -151.7383 ± 522 m
Record type: Preservedspecimen

505 Bishop specimens of Assiminea · collected 1864–2011Species page ›

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On October 13, 1934, Gessler & St. John {Harold}; Mangarevan Expedition also collected 24+ other specimens.

Still here: Assiminea 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 2019-05-08.

2019-05-08

Tahaa, Taha'a, Französisch-Polynesien

(c) Ingo Kurtz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Cite this specimen

Assiminea. BPBM 152345. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/152345.

Record sources

Last harvested October 27, 2026