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Cypraea testudinaria

Tortoise Cowry

60

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1902

First collected

1978

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by Wm. H.C. Greig; Wm. H.C. Greig (Washington Island & Fanning Island).

From the collection

Cypraea testudinaria, 233192Cypraea testudinaria, 69310Cypraea testudinaria, 69313Cypraea testudinaria, 67259Cypraea testudinaria, 67644Cypraea testudinaria, 67717Cypraea testudinaria, 66769Cypraea testudinaria, 69311Cypraea testudinaria, 233201Cypraea testudinaria, 212Cypraea testudinaria, 233200Cypraea testudinaria, 197063