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Cypraea caputdraconis

Dragon's-Head Cowry

17

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1949

First collected

1982

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1949 by Missionary; Thomas A. & Beatrice Burch (Rapa Nui).

From the collection

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