Julia exquisita
A. A. Gould, 1862Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 215227 ↗
Photo: (c) uwkwaj, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by uwkwaj (iNaturalist)
17
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1940
First collected
2005
Last collected
2026
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Julia exquisita, most mentions first.
2002
Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages
2002
Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages
2001
Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages
1999
Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, HawaiiColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages
2002
Records of shallow-water marine invertebrates from French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands with a note on nonindigenous speciesDeFelice, R., D. Minton & S. Godwin · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
1997
Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic speciesColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
2 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1940 by Grace Burgess [C.M. Burgess Collection] (Kauaʻi). The Museum last collected it in 2005; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as June 21, 2026.
From the collection
Alive today
14 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.
2026-06-21
Pupukea, HI 96712, USA
(c) Shallow Reef, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2025-11-25
Honolulu, HI, USA
(c) Thomas Irvine, some rights reserved (CC BY)
2024-07-27
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2024-07-22
Hawaii, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2024-05-05
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2023-09-03
Honolulu County, US-HI, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2023-08-12
Hawaii, US
(c) D. Torres-Pulliza, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2023-06-03
Hawaii, US
(c) Shallow Reef, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)