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Thais hippocastanea

heavy crown shell

13

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1920

First collected

1932

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1930s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1920 by E.W. Gifford; E.W. Gifford (Tonga; Haapai Group; Haapai; Lifuka).

From the collection

Thais hippocastanea, 67189Thais hippocastanea, 67415Thais hippocastanea, 67745Thais hippocastanea, 66791Thais hippocastanea, 67291Thais hippocastanea, 197651Thais hippocastanea, 197652Thais hippocastanea, 202335Thais hippocastanea, 204179Thais hippocastanea, 204180Thais hippocastanea, 68449Thais hippocastanea, 68542