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Vitularia

marine

Swainson, 1840Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 204000 ↗

3

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1933

First collected

1963

Last collected

2024

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Vitularia, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1930s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1933 by Langford & Thaanum; Thaanum (Ryukyu Islands; Loochoos; Okinawa; Itoman; off). The Museum last collected it in 1963; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as December 19, 2024.

From the collection

Vitularia, 218473Vitularia, 235715Vitularia, 218474

Alive today

3 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.