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Cypraea caurica

thick-edged cowry

124

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1901

First collected

1996

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1901 by Milton J. Flood; Thaanum (Australia; Queensland; Barrier Reef, Low Island.).

From the collection

Cypraea caurica, 232212Cypraea caurica, 316Cypraea caurica, 232214Cypraea caurica, 247203Cypraea caurica, 232229Cypraea caurica, 203033Cypraea caurica, 69304Cypraea caurica, 69309Cypraea caurica, 232208Cypraea caurica, 232218Cypraea caurica, 62367Cypraea caurica, 232228