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Otala lactea

Milk snail

terrestrial

(O. F. Müller, 1774)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 1050532 ↗

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1957

First collected

2020

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Otala lactea, most mentions first.

  1. 2023

    New records of Otala lactea (Müller, 1774) and Zachrysia provisoria (Pfeiffer, 1858) in Hawaii: using collaborative networks to combat invasive sleeper populations

    Hayes, K.A., C.C. Christensen, J.R. Kim, C.M. Kishimoto, J.N. Matsunaga, and N.W. Yeung · Museum research publication · 22 pages

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Two centuries of collecting

1950s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1957 by Yoshio Kondo.

From the collection

Otala lactea, 279759