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Cypraea staphylaea

Grape Cowrie

72

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1903

First collected

1979

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

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

  1. 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

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1903 by Thomas A. & Beatrice Burch (Hope Island {Kiribati; Gilbert Islands; Arorae? or Micronesia; Kosrae; Kosrae?}).

From the collection

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