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Drupella rugosa

Coral-eating Whelk

marine

(Born, 1778)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 212154 ↗

13

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1922

First collected

1992

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1922 by Thaanum; Thaanum (Palmyra Atoll).

From the collection

Drupella rugosa, 235215Drupella rugosa, 235218Drupella rugosa, 235210Drupella rugosa, 235212Drupella rugosa, 235213Drupella rugosa, 235214Drupella rugosa, 235216Drupella rugosa, 235217Drupella rugosa, 285627Drupella rugosa, 251668Drupella rugosa, 235211