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Cypraea madagascarensis

Kernel cowry

16

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1915

First collected

1930

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1930s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1915 by W.A. & E.L. Bryan (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Cypraea madagascarensis, 62485Cypraea madagascarensis, 69207Cypraea madagascarensis, 66007Cypraea madagascarensis, 66364Cypraea madagascarensis, 69206Cypraea madagascarensis, 62488Cypraea madagascarensis, 69205Cypraea madagascarensis, 69208Cypraea madagascarensis, 62487Cypraea madagascarensis, 65883Cypraea madagascarensis, 62484Cypraea madagascarensis, 65825