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Cypraea gracilis

Graceful Cowry

87

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1978

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by D. B. Langford; Thaanum (Japan; Tateyama Bay, Tateyama Island.).

From the collection

Cypraea gracilis, 232544Cypraea gracilis, 232561Cypraea gracilis, 232558Cypraea gracilis, 232560Cypraea gracilis, 232554Cypraea gracilis, 232534Cypraea gracilis, 232535Cypraea gracilis, 232551Cypraea gracilis, 232542Cypraea gracilis, 232545Cypraea gracilis, 232556Cypraea gracilis, 232543