Cymatium pileare

Common Hairy Triton Snail

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Cymatiidae

Collected by: Pele Expedition 1959; M. E. KingMary Eleanor King →Pele Expedition 1959 →
Date: October 16, 1959
Locality: Keehi Lagoon, Off
Island: Oʻahu
Region: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates: 21.3157, -157.9053
Record type: Preservedspecimen

118 Bishop specimens of Cymatium pileare · collected 1915–1995Species page ›

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On October 16, 1959, Pele Expedition 1959; M. E. King also collected 24+ other specimens.

Still here: Monoplex pilearis observed near this locality

This specimen was collected in 1959. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 1 research-grade sighting in the wild within 25 km, most recently on 2019-03-06.

2019-03-06

252 Paoa Pl, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA

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Cite this specimen

Cymatium pileare. BPBM 261448. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 36254474. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/261448.

Record sources

GBIF occurrence 36254474 ↗
Data license: CC0
Last harvested October 27, 2026