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Pterocera bryonia

giant spider conch

12

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1930

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1930s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by D. Thaanum (Wake Island).

From the collection

Pterocera bryonia, 67701Pterocera bryonia, 66959Pterocera bryonia, 195177Pterocera bryonia, 195178Pterocera bryonia, 195179Pterocera bryonia, 195180Pterocera bryonia, 195181Pterocera bryonia, 195182Pterocera bryonia, 195183Pterocera bryonia, 197970Pterocera bryonia, 197999Pterocera bryonia, 66561