Merelina wanawana
3
Bishop specimens
2
Type specimens
1923
First collected
1970
Last collected
2016
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Merelina wanawana, most mentions first.
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
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
Where Bishop collected it
1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1970s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by Dranga & Thaanum; Thaanum (Oʻahu). The Museum last collected it in 1970; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as December 9, 2016.
From the collection
Alive today
1 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.
