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Dentalium buccinulum

marine

A. A. Gould, 1859Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 344131 ↗

Photo: (c) Kim, Hyun-tae, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Kim, Hyun-tae (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1925

First collected

1952

Last collected

2020

Last seen alive

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1950s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by Langford & Thaanum; Thaanum (Japan; Imaizumi.). The Museum last collected it in 1952; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as March 8, 2020.

From the collection

Dentalium buccinulum, 225368Dentalium buccinulum, 225369Dentalium buccinulum, 225370Dentalium buccinulum, 204496

Alive today

1 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild since 2000. Most recent first.