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Cypraea poraria

Cowrie

179

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1902

First collected

2017

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

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

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

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

  2. 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

  3. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2010s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by A. Seale; A. Seale (Makatea).

From the collection

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