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Cypraea mauritiana

Humpback Cowry

246

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1902

First collected

1993

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Cypraea mauritiana, most mentions first.

  1. 2006

    Inventory of intertidal and shallow subtidal marine invertebrates at Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Moloka`i, Hawai`i

    Godwin, S. & Bolick, H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2010

    Marine biota information base for offshore islets in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Coles, S.L. & Swenson, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2008

    Assessment of species composition, diversity and biomass in marine habitats and subhaqbitats around offshore islets in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Coles, S.L., Giuseffi, L. & Hutchinson, M. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2004

    Assessment of nonindigenous species on coral reefs in the Hawaiian Islands, with emphasis on introduced invertebrates

    Coles, S.L., L.G. Eldredge, F. Kandel, P.R. Reath & K. Longenecker · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2002

  6. 2001

    Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by Wm. H.C. Greig; Wm. H.C. Greig (Washington Island & Fanning Island).

From the collection

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