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Polinices virginea

Moon Snail

63

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1959

First collected

1998

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1950s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1959 by Pele Expedition 1959; Mary Eleanor King (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Polinices virginea, 221438Polinices virginea, 221449Polinices virginea, 221747Polinices virginea, 221827Polinices virginea, 221897Polinices virginea, 221928Polinices virginea, 221967Polinices virginea, 221999Polinices virginea, 222031Polinices virginea, 222100Polinices virginea, 218192Polinices virginea, 218193