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Vexillum plicarium

Plaited Mitre

marine

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 754865 ↗

Photo: (c) Femorale, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) (iNaturalist)

16

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1897

First collected

1948

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1890s1940s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1897 by Milton J. Flood; Thaanum (Australia; Queenland; Barrier Reef).

From the collection

Vexillum plicarium, 238652Vexillum plicarium, 238649Vexillum plicarium, 238657Vexillum plicarium, 238647Vexillum plicarium, 238659Vexillum plicarium, 238654Vexillum plicarium, 238653Vexillum plicarium, 238655Vexillum plicarium, 238650Vexillum plicarium, 238661Vexillum plicarium, 238651Vexillum plicarium, 238658