Leptachatina

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Stylommatophora › Amastridae

Collected by: William H. Meinecke, E. Meadows, & Donald Anderson; Donald AndersonDonald AndersonDonald Anderson →Edmund J. Meadows →William H. Meinecke →
Date: April 3, 1938
Locality: Waianae Mountains; Pualii; 5 & 6; along new firebreak trail
Island: Oʻahu
Region: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
Record type: Preservedspecimen

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

Collected the same day

On April 3, 1938, William H. Meinecke, E. Meadows, & Donald Anderson; Donald Anderson also collected 24+ other specimens.

Leptachatina observed alive in Hawaiʻi

This specimen was collected in 1938. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 1 research-grade sighting in the wild, 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 184878. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/184878.

Record sources

Last harvested October 27, 2026