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Cypraea eglantina

dog-rose cowrie

85

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1896

First collected

1997

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1890s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1896 by Lorrin Andrews Thurston (New Guinea).

From the collection

Cypraea eglantina, 240786Cypraea eglantina, 268932Cypraea eglantina, 268936Cypraea eglantina, 232356Cypraea eglantina, 232348Cypraea eglantina, 232827Cypraea eglantina, 232354Cypraea eglantina, 231680Cypraea eglantina, 232365Cypraea eglantina, 232370Cypraea eglantina, 232364Cypraea eglantina, 232366