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Cymatium gemmata

jeweled triton

6

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1932

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

1920s1930s

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

From the collection

Cymatium gemmata, 200005Cymatium gemmata, 66578Cymatium gemmata, 197687Cymatium gemmata, 200059Cymatium gemmata, 200058Cymatium gemmata, 66018