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Cypraea caputserpentis

Serpent's-head Cowrie

489

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1898

First collected

2002

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1890s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1898 by Thaanum; Thaanum (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

Cypraea caputserpentis, 196396Cypraea caputserpentis, 196398Cypraea caputserpentis, 196399Cypraea caputserpentis, 196400Cypraea caputserpentis, 197101Cypraea caputserpentis, 197102Cypraea caputserpentis, 197103Cypraea caputserpentis, 197104Cypraea caputserpentis, 197105Cypraea caputserpentis, 197110Cypraea caputserpentis, 197113Cypraea caputserpentis, 197116