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Lambis lambis

common spider conch

marine

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 211096 ↗

Photo: (c) Ria Tan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1897

First collected

1996

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1890s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1897 by Milton J. Flood; Ditlev Due Thaanum (Australia; Queensland; north; Barrier Reef).

From the collection

Lambis lambis, 231213Lambis lambis, 254197Lambis lambis, 231216Lambis lambis, 258006Lambis lambis, 258185Lambis lambis, 258275Lambis lambis, 257717Lambis lambis, 231215Lambis lambis, 231217Lambis lambis, 204810Lambis lambis, 216291Lambis lambis, 202356