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Crepidula fornicata

American Slipper Limpet

marine

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 138963 ↗

7

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1876

First collected

2017

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Crepidula fornicata, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Two centuries of collecting

1870s2010s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1876 by A.F.G.; Joseph Swift Emerson (Massachussetts; Cape Cod).

From the collection

Crepidula fornicata, 196435Crepidula fornicata, 196489Crepidula fornicata, 196798Crepidula fornicata, 231421Crepidula fornicata, 283940Crepidula fornicata, 254598Crepidula fornicata, 649