Pomacea
Apple snail
G. Perry, 1810Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 737472 ↗
23
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1990
First collected
2024
Last collected
2026
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Pomacea, most mentions first.
2000
Biodiversity of freshwater and estuarine communities in lower Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced speciesEnglund, R.A., D.J. Preston, R. Wolff, S.L. Coles, L.G. Eldredge & K. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 12 pages
2000
Food preference and reproductive plasticity in an invasive freshwater snailLach, L., Britton, D.K., Rundell, R.J. & Cowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 9 pages
1997
Catalog and bibliography of the nonindigenous nonmarine snails and slugs of the Hawaiian IslandsCowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 7 pages
1996
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996: SupplementEvenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 7 pages
2001
Native and exotic organism studyEnglund, R.A., D.J. Preston, N.L. Evenhuis, R.H. Cowie, C. Imada, C. Puttock, & K. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 5 pages
1998
Patterns of introduction of non-indigenous non-marine snails and slugs in the Hawaiian IslandsCowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 5 pages
2013
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: IndexEvenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages
2007
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2006. Part 2: notesEvenhuis, N.L. and Eldredge, L.G. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages
Where Bishop collected it
1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1990 by Skippy Hau; Skippy Hau (Maui).
From the collection
Alive today
157 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.
2026-09-27
Līhuʻe, HI, US
(c) Spencer Barrett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-08-30
West Loch Estate, HI 96706, USA
(c) Madi Kelly, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-08-22
North Shore, Waialua, HI, USA
(c) Thomas Irvine, some rights reserved (CC BY)
2026-06-18
Lihue, HI 96766, USA
(c) Nick Moore, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-06-04
Kahaone Pl, Waialua, HI, US
(c) hi_ocean, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-06-03
Kahaone Loop, Waialua, HI, US
(c) hi_ocean, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-06-03
Kahaone Loop, Waialua, HI, US
(c) hi_ocean, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-06-02
Kahaone Loop, Waialua, HI, US
(c) hi_ocean, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)