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Murex

marinefreshwater

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 138196 ↗

41

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1902

First collected

1968

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Murex, most mentions first.

  1. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by A. Seale; A. Seale (Makatea).

From the collection

Murex, 198398Murex, 218481Murex, 218482Murex, 66026Murex, 66389Murex, 61869Murex, 68136Murex, 64861Murex, 258242Murex, 68083Murex, 61868Murex, 66390