Leptachatina

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Stylommatophora › Amastridae

Collected by: Meinecke; Meinecke
Date: June 25, 1927
Locality: Waipaa {Hanalei District; Waipa?}; E of Waioli Stream, above Govt. Road, between poles 81 & 82 of power line
Island: Kauaʻi
Region: Kauai County, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates: 22.1995, -159.5048 ± 514 m
Record type: Preservedspecimen

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

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On June 25, 1927, Meinecke; Meinecke also collected 24+ other specimens.

Still here: Leptachatina observed near this locality

This specimen was collected in 1927. 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 86297. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 37389509. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/86297.

Record sources

GBIF occurrence 37389509 ↗
Data license: CC0
Last harvested October 27, 2026