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Vermetidae

Worm Shells

marine

Rafinesque, 1815Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 23139 ↗

75

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

2008

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

1920s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by Thaanum; Thaanum (Wake Island).

From the collection

Vermetidae, 241142Vermetidae, 244132Vermetidae, 217418Vermetidae, 217424Vermetidae, 217608Vermetidae, 229212Vermetidae, 229210Vermetidae, 209206Vermetidae, 229207Vermetidae, 263885Vermetidae, 229217Vermetidae, 207269