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Pterynotus elongatus

club murex

marine

([Lightfoot], 1786)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 406217 ↗

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1941

First collected

1978

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

1940s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1941 by Grace Burgess [C.M. Burgess Collection (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Pterynotus elongatus, 280704Pterynotus elongatus, 285609Pterynotus elongatus, 285610Pterynotus elongatus, 285611