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Cypraea madagascariensis

Kernel cowry

34

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1922

First collected

1958

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1950s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1922 by Baldwin; Baldwin (Maui).

From the collection

Cypraea madagascariensis, 196621Cypraea madagascariensis, 197149Cypraea madagascariensis, 197150Cypraea madagascariensis, 197152Cypraea madagascariensis, 197153Cypraea madagascariensis, 197154Cypraea madagascariensis, 197158Cypraea madagascariensis, 197159Cypraea madagascariensis, 197162Cypraea madagascariensis, 197163Cypraea madagascariensis, 197165Cypraea madagascariensis, 197166