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Cypraea fimbriata
Fringed Cowrie
Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Cypraeidae
- Collected by
- Burgess, Grace
- Date
- Invalid Date
- Locality
- Makaha
- Island
- Oʻahu
- Region
- Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
- Coordinates
- 21.2950, -158.2300
- Record type
- Preservedspecimen
Where it was collected
Collected the same day
On Invalid Date, Burgess, Grace also collected 3 other specimens.
Still here: Purpuradusta fimbriata observed near this locality
This specimen was collected in 1960. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 3 research-grade sightings in the wild within 25 km, most recently on 2023-09-09.

2023-09-09
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2023-01-28
Navy Tug
(c) Sara Thiebaud, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2022-07-23
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Observations and photos from iNaturalist, shown only when openly licensed.
Cite this specimen
Cypraea fimbriata. BPBM 265750. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 36272163. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/265750.
Record sources
- GBIF occurrence 36272163 ↗
- Data license: CC0
- Last harvested October 27, 2026



