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Modiolus metcalfi

Winged Horse Mussel

10

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1920

First collected

1959

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1950s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1920 by E.W. Gifford; E.W. Gifford (Tonga; Haapai Group; Haapai; Lifuka).

From the collection

Modiolus metcalfi, 67222Modiolus metcalfi, 67345Modiolus metcalfi, 68478Modiolus metcalfi, 259384Modiolus metcalfi, 67064Modiolus metcalfi, 260497Modiolus metcalfi, 200356Modiolus metcalfi, 67065Modiolus metcalfi, 66919Modiolus metcalfi, 66831