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Cypraea chinensis

Chinese Cowrie

70

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1928

First collected

1994

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1928 by Langford & Thanum; Thaanum (Ryukyu Islands; Loochoos; Okinawa; Chishima; Southwest Chisima Island).

From the collection

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