Bishop MuseumExplore

Cypraea felina

Kitten Cowrie

82

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1925

First collected

1992

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by Langford & Thaanum; Thaanum (Japan; Satsuma, Waki.).

From the collection

Cypraea felina, 218092Cypraea felina, 232488Cypraea felina, 232493Cypraea felina, 232482Cypraea felina, 232503Cypraea felina, 232497Cypraea felina, 232499Cypraea felina, 3288Cypraea felina, 232500Cypraea felina, 232485Cypraea felina, 232481Cypraea felina, 232487