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Conus episcopus

episcopal cone

IUCN: least concernmarine

Hwass, 1792Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 215494 ↗

8

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1963

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by Lorrin Andrews Thurston & Ted T. Dranga; Lorrin Andrews Thurston (Laysan).

From the collection

Conus episcopus, 200459Conus episcopus, 66437Conus episcopus, 200260Conus episcopus, 200460Conus episcopus, 66049Conus episcopus, 2138Conus episcopus, 95Conus episcopus, 257412