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Cypraea ursellus

little bear cowrie

18

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1926

First collected

1982

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1926 by Jens M. Ostergaard; J.M. Ostergaard (Tonga; Tongatapu Group; Tongatapu; Nukualofa Beach).

From the collection

Cypraea ursellus, 247785Cypraea ursellus, 247786Cypraea ursellus, 247787Cypraea ursellus, 247788Cypraea ursellus, 247789Cypraea ursellus, 247790Cypraea ursellus, 247791Cypraea ursellus, 247792Cypraea ursellus, 247793Cypraea ursellus, 267808Cypraea ursellus, 268494Cypraea ursellus, 269518