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Cypraea

Tiger and Panther Cowries

marine

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 205978 ↗

291

Bishop specimens

2

Type specimens

1902

First collected

2022

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Cypraea, most mentions first.

  1. 2001

    Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 6 pages

  2. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 6 pages

  3. 2008

    Assessment of species composition, diversity and biomass in marine habitats and subhaqbitats around offshore islets in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Coles, S.L., Giuseffi, L. & Hutchinson, M. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  4. 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 · 4 pages

  5. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  6. 2010

    Marine biota information base for offshore islets in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Coles, S.L. & Swenson, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  7. 2006

    Inventory of intertidal and shallow subtidal marine invertebrates at Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Moloka`i, Hawai`i

    Godwin, S. & Bolick, H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  8. 1999

    Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, Hawaii

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by W.A. & E.L. Bryan (Laysan).

From the collection

Cypraea, 197231Cypraea, 197282Cypraea, 198461Cypraea, 202205Cypraea, 202206Cypraea, 202207Cypraea, 203409Cypraea, 205297Cypraea, 205907Cypraea, 208282Cypraea, 208283Cypraea, 209162