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Patella

terrestrial

F.H. Wigg., 1780Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 1487040 ↗

32

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1922

First collected

1993

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Patella, most mentions first.

  1. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2003

    Hawaii's biodiversity: a detailed assessment of the numbers of species in the Hawaiian Islands

    Eldredge, L.G. & N.L. Evenhuis · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2003

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001-2002. Part II: Notes

    N.L. Evenhuis & Eldredge, L.G., eds. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2001

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001: -02: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1922 by Pere Simeon Delmas; Pere Simeon Delmas (Nuku Hiva). The Museum last collected it in 1993; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as January 23, 2025.

From the collection

Patella, 205242Patella, 205291Patella, 205292Patella, 205293Patella, 205294Patella, 205296Patella, 205620Patella, 205882Patella, 258018Patella, 67655Patella, 6781Patella, 203105

Alive today

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