Natica tessellata
Spotted Sand Shell
35
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1959
First collected
1962
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Natica tessellata, most mentions first.
1997
Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic speciesColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
17 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1950s1960s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1959 by Pele Expedition; Mary Eleanor King (Oʻahu).
From the collection
