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Cypraea erosa

Eroded Cowrie

283

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1898

First collected

1998

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1890s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1898 by Milton J. Flood; Thaanum (Australia; Queensland; Barrier Reef; Double Island).

From the collection

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