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Engina mendicaria

bumble bee snail

marine

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 212164 ↗

56

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1920

First collected

1995

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1920 by E.W. Gifford; E.W. Gifford (Tonga; Haapai Group; Haapai; Lifuka).

From the collection

Engina mendicaria, 236185Engina mendicaria, 66893Engina mendicaria, 258312Engina mendicaria, 258314Engina mendicaria, 67197Engina mendicaria, 67019Engina mendicaria, 236190Engina mendicaria, 67429Engina mendicaria, 68458Engina mendicaria, 236195Engina mendicaria, 68544Engina mendicaria, 236187