Cypraea polita
half-extending cowry
5
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1917
First collected
1932
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
3 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1910s1930s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1917 by W.A. & E.L. Bryan (Midway Atoll).
From the collection
