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Thais tuberosa

The Magpie Purpura

18

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1925

First collected

1995

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1925 by Daniel B. Langford & Ditlev Due Thaanum; Ditlev Due Thaanum (Ryukyu Islands; Loochoos; Okinawa; Nakama reef).

From the collection

Thais tuberosa, 251705Thais tuberosa, 251706Thais tuberosa, 252307Thais tuberosa, 252308Thais tuberosa, 260096Thais tuberosa, 253626Thais tuberosa, 253627Thais tuberosa, 254361Thais tuberosa, 254362Thais tuberosa, 255889Thais tuberosa, 255890Thais tuberosa, 254363