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Spondylus violascens

Cliff Oyster

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1944

First collected

2000

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1944 by Tuttle, Horace L.; Merlin Tuttle (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Spondylus violascens, 240490Spondylus violascens, 252202Spondylus violascens, 259664