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Cypraea arenosa

cowries

72

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1902

First collected

1976

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by Wm. H.C. Greig; Wm. H.C. Greig (Washington Island & Fanning Island).

From the collection

Cypraea arenosa, 197145Cypraea arenosa, 197148Cypraea arenosa, 198452Cypraea arenosa, 266303Cypraea arenosa, 266305Cypraea arenosa, 266308Cypraea arenosa, 266310Cypraea arenosa, 266319Cypraea arenosa, 266321Cypraea arenosa, 266323Cypraea arenosa, 266326Cypraea arenosa, 266327