Achatinella fulgens

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Stylommatophora › Achatinellidae

Collected by: Oliver Huddleston Emerson, Edwin H. Bryan Jr. & Donald Anderson; Malacology StaffDonald AndersonDonald Anderson →Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. →Oliver Huddleston Emerson →Malacology Staff →
Date: July 19, 1939
Locality: East of Niu; Kulepiamoa Ridge; Loc. 2. SEE MAP
Island: Oʻahu
Region: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates: 21.3, -157.7Shown approximately to protect an endangered species.
Record type: Preservedspecimen

1,030 Bishop specimens of Achatinella fulgens · collected 1877–1963Species page ›

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On July 19, 1939, Oliver Huddleston Emerson, Edwin H. Bryan Jr. & Donald Anderson; Malacology Staff also collected 24+ other specimens.

Achatinella fulgens observed alive in Hawaiʻi

This specimen was collected in 1939. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 1 research-grade sighting in the wild, most recently on 2017-06-01.

2017-06-01

Hawaii, US

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Cite this specimen

Achatinella fulgens. BPBM 183018. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/183018.

Record sources

Last harvested October 27, 2026