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Conus litteratus

Lettered cone

IUCN: least concernmarine

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 215522 ↗

39

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1889

First collected

1995

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

1880s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1889 by Milton J. Flood; Ditlev Due Thaanum (Australia; Queensland; Barrier Reef).

From the collection

Conus litteratus, 239858Conus litteratus, 257419Conus litteratus, 257420Conus litteratus, 203477Conus litteratus, 203668Conus litteratus, 252037Conus litteratus, 253036Conus litteratus, 239854Conus litteratus, 239855Conus litteratus, 239857Conus litteratus, 239859Conus litteratus, 239860