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.
2002
Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages
1997
Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic speciesColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages
Where Bishop collected it
1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
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
Alive today
3 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.





