Tapes literatus
lettered carpet shell
marine
(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 215828 ↗
18
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1951
First collected
1960
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
1950s1960s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1951 by A. Franco; Thomas A. Burch & Beatrice Burch (Philippines: Cebu).
From the collection
