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Cipangopaludina chinensis

Chinese mystery snail

IUCN: least concernfreshwater

(J. E. Gray, 1833)WoRMS treats this as a synonym of Margarya chinensis.WoRMS 594807 ↗

35

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1946

First collected

2025

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1946 by Mr. Bond; Mr. Bond (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

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