Periglypta puerpera
Maiden's Purse Shell
marine
(Linnaeus, 1771)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 590802 ↗
30
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1926
First collected
1976
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
5 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1970s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1926 by Jens M. Ostergaard; J.M. Ostergaard (Tonga; Tongatapu Group; Tongatapu; Nukualofa Beach).
From the collection
