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Spondylus linguafelis

Cat's tongue oyster

marine

G. B. Sowerby II, 1847Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 506950 ↗

13

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1943

First collected

2001

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1943 by Grace Burgess [C.M. Burgess Collection] (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Spondylus linguafelis, 281116Spondylus linguafelis, 281118