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Pterocera chiragra

Chiragra Conch

10

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1930

First collected

1948

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s1940s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1930 by Capt. Tierney; Joseph Swift Emerson (Eastern Pacific Outliers; Galapagos; Santa Cruz Island {Cat. = "Nitendi or Santa Cruz Is."}).

From the collection

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