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Cypraea tessellata
Checkerboard Cowrie
Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Cypraeidae
- Collected by
- Burgess, Grace
- Date
- 1960
- Locality
- Makua
- Island
- Oʻahu
- Region
- Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
- Coordinates
- 21.5335, -158.2303
- Record type
- Preservedspecimen
Where it was collected
Still here: Luria tessellata observed near this locality
This specimen was collected in 1960. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 6 research-grade sightings in the wild within 25 km, most recently on 2025-09-07.
2025-09-07
North Pacific Ocean, HI, US
(c) Robin White, some rights reserved (CC BY)
2023-03-04
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2021-11-19
Haleiwa Ali'i
(c) Sara Thiebaud, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2021-10-01
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2021-09-16
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2006-08-01
North Pacific Ocean, Pūpūkea, HI, US
(c) surfman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Observations and photos from iNaturalist, shown only when openly licensed.
Cite this specimen
Cypraea tessellata. BPBM 265996. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 36294787. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/265996.
Record sources
- GBIF occurrence 36294787 ↗
- Data license: CC0
- Last harvested October 27, 2026