Lambis truncata
giant spider conch
marine
([Lightfoot], 1786)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 211091 ↗
7
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1928
First collected
1957
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
2 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1950s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1928 by Daniel B. Langford & Ditlev Due Thaanum; Ditlev Due Thaanum (Ryukyu Islands; Loochoos; Okinawa; Kumejima; Gima).
From the collection
