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Septifer bilocularis

Box Mussel

marine

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 216632 ↗

19

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1924

First collected

1964

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

1920s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1924 by D. Thaanum (Japan; Boshu; shimoda).

From the collection

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