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Cypraea marginata

cowries

7

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1928

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 1928 by Grace Burgess [C.M. Burgess Collection] (Ryukyu Islands; Okinawa; Chrishima {=Chishima?}).

From the collection

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