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Spondylus linguaefelis

Cat's tongue oyster

7

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1959

First collected

1997

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

1950s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1959 by Pele Expedition 1959; M. E. King (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Spondylus linguaefelis, 281135Spondylus linguaefelis, 259670Spondylus linguaefelis, 221071Spondylus linguaefelis, 252197Spondylus linguaefelis, 221073