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Natica melanostoma

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1915

First collected

1923

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1920s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1915 by W.A. & E.L. Bryan (Kauaʻi).

From the collection

Natica melanostoma, 64060Natica melanostoma, 64059Natica melanostoma, 64064Natica melanostoma, 64062Natica melanostoma, 64061Natica melanostoma, 1625Natica melanostoma, 64063Natica melanostoma, 64065Natica melanostoma, 64870Natica melanostoma, 66238