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Achatinella fulgens

Endemic to HawaiʻiIUCN: critically endangeredcritically imperiledterrestrial

Newcomb, 1854Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 1481803 ↗

1,030

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1877

First collected

1963

Last collected

2017

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

607 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1870s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1877 by E.D.B.; David Dwight Baldwin (Oʻahu). The Museum last collected it in 1963; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as June 1, 2017.

From the collection

Achatinella fulgens, 58878Achatinella fulgens, 88660Achatinella fulgens, 88661Achatinella fulgens, 88662Achatinella fulgens, 88664Achatinella fulgens, 88665Achatinella fulgens, 88666Achatinella fulgens, 88667Achatinella fulgens, 88669Achatinella fulgens, 88805Achatinella fulgens, 88806Achatinella fulgens, 88812

Alive today

1 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.