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Cypraea tigris

tiger cowrie

marine

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 216843 ↗

371

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1902

First collected

2015

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2010s

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 tigris, 197281Cypraea tigris, 202490Cypraea tigris, 205896Cypraea tigris, 233340Cypraea tigris, 240263Cypraea tigris, 240265Cypraea tigris, 280861Cypraea tigris, 280862Cypraea tigris, 280863Cypraea tigris, 280864Cypraea tigris, 280865Cypraea tigris, 280866