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Omphalotropis laticosta

terrestrial

Quadras & von Möllendorff, 1894Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 405049 ↗

Photo: (c) CJ Paulino, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by CJ Paulino (iNaturalist)

2

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1927

First collected

1936

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1930s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1927 by Senckenb. Naturfor. Gesellsch. Frankfurt, Germany (Guam). The Museum last collected it in 1936; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as July 10, 2025.

From the collection

Omphalotropis laticosta, 153028Omphalotropis laticosta, 86215

Alive today

1 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild since 2000. Most recent first.