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Muricidae

Murex Snail

marinebrackish

Rafinesque, 1815Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 148 ↗

35

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1925

First collected

2003

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by Langford & Thaanum; Thaanum (Japan; Kagoshima Bay; Chiringashima Island).

From the collection

Muricidae, 235710Muricidae, 222207Muricidae, 235698Muricidae, 235707Muricidae, 235703Muricidae, 235712Muricidae, 258198Muricidae, 235699Muricidae, 259995Muricidae, 222515Muricidae, 222591Muricidae, 221427