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Lithophaga curta

Burrowing Date Mussel

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1947

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1940s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by D.B. Langford; D. Thaanum (Japan; Oki=no=shima).

From the collection

Lithophaga curta, 260575Lithophaga curta, 204028Lithophaga curta, 260576Lithophaga curta, 260577