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Cypraea teres

Tapering Cowry

104

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1910

First collected

1993

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1910 by Cpt. Max Schlemmer; Thomas A. & Beatrice Burch (Laysan).

From the collection

Cypraea teres, 231917Cypraea teres, 244100Cypraea teres, 218105Cypraea teres, 268786Cypraea teres, 246855Cypraea teres, 246857Cypraea teres, 246860Cypraea teres, 246865Cypraea teres, 246868Cypraea teres, 231916Cypraea teres, 246856Cypraea teres, 246866