Cypraea hirundo
Cowrie
67
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1925
First collected
1978
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Cypraea hirundo, most mentions first.
1997
Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic speciesColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
18 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1970s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by Burgess, Grace (Ryukyu Islands; Okinawa; Chishima Island).
From the collection
