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Cypraea punctata

punctate cowrie

50

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1932

First collected

1981

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1932 by Burgess, Grace (Ryukyu Islands; Okinawa; Chishima Island).

From the collection

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