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Cypraea irrorata

dew-drop cowrie

28

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1924

First collected

1967

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1924 by T. T. Dranga (Kiritimati).

From the collection

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