Purpura persica
Persian purpura
marine
(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 208648 ↗
12
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1940
First collected
1968
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
5 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1940s1960s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1940 by Dranga & Thaanum; Thaanum (Beqa).
From the collection
