Leptachatina

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Stylommatophora › Amastridae

Collected by: W.H. Meinecke; W.H. Meinecke
Date: June 29, 1925
Locality: Waimea District; Olokele; around corner above rainbow falls, mauka ridge point of rainbow falls valley
Island: Kauaʻi
Region: Kauai County, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates: 22.0360, -159.5520
Record type: Preservedspecimen

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

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On June 29, 1925, W.H. Meinecke; W.H. Meinecke also collected 24+ other specimens.

Still here: Leptachatina observed near this locality

This specimen was collected in 1925. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 1 research-grade sighting in the wild within 25 km, 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 79891. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 37371838. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/79891.

Record sources

GBIF occurrence 37371838 ↗
Data license: CC0
Last harvested October 27, 2026