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Natica marochiensis

Moroccan moon snail

marine

(Gmelin, 1791)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 208000 ↗

Photo: (c) Ivan Hinkson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Ivan Hinkson (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1906

First collected

1957

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1950s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1906 by Lorrin Andrews Thurston (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Natica marochiensis, 199328Natica marochiensis, 199332Natica marochiensis, 199334Natica marochiensis, 199335Natica marochiensis, 199338Natica marochiensis, 199339Natica marochiensis, 203313Natica marochiensis, 203323Natica marochiensis, 205188Natica marochiensis, 284408Natica marochiensis, 257772Natica marochiensis, 65987