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Helix

marineterrestrial

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 153970 ↗

25

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1906

First collected

1963

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Helix, most mentions first.

  1. 1997

    Catalog and bibliography of the nonindigenous nonmarine snails and slugs of the Hawaiian Islands

    Cowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 23 pages

  2. 1996

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996: Supplement

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 23 pages

  3. 2023

    New records of Otala lactea (Müller, 1774) and Zachrysia provisoria (Pfeiffer, 1858) in Hawaii: using collaborative networks to combat invasive sleeper populations

    Hayes, K.A., C.C. Christensen, J.R. Kim, C.M. Kishimoto, J.N. Matsunaga, and N.W. Yeung · Museum research publication · 5 pages

  4. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  5. 2002

    Index to the Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for the years 1994 through 2000

    Evenhuis, N.L. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  6. 2000

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2000: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  7. 1996

    Records of the Hawaii Biological survey. Part 2: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & S.E. Miller, editors · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  8. 1996

    Saddle Road Project: assessment of the impacts on invertebrates (land snails, insects, and other arthropods)

    Evenhuis, N.L., R.H. Cowie, G.M. Nishida, G.A. Samuelson, and F.G. Howarth · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1906 by Cooke (Oʻahu). The Museum last collected it in 1963; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as June 29, 2026.

From the collection

Helix, 56277Helix, 56287Helix, 56263Helix, 205885Helix, 212884Helix, 2832Helix, 5259Helix, 5320Helix, 212882Helix, 3527Helix, 3532Helix, 77312

Alive today

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