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Conus purpurascens

purple cone

IUCN: least concernmarine

G. B. Sowerby I, 1833Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 428255 ↗

11

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1929

First collected

1952

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1950s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1929 by Walter Clark; Ditlev Due Thaanum (Panama; Canal Zone; Islas Perlas; Taboga Island).

From the collection

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