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Melanella thaanumi

6

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1933

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1930s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by Lorrin Andrews Thurston & Ted T. Dranga; Lorrin Andrews Thurston (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Melanella thaanumi, 200148Melanella thaanumi, 205402Melanella thaanumi, 200150Melanella thaanumi, 200149Melanella thaanumi, 64101Melanella thaanumi, 64100