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Cypraea miliaris

Millet Cowrie

55

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1925

First collected

1969

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by Lorrin Andrews Thurston (Japan; Kagoshima Bay; Imaizumi).

From the collection

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