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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Malacology

(BPBM:MAL)

Taxon: Diastole schmeltziana Mousson, 1865
Family: Euconulidae

Collector: T.T. Dranga      

Date: 1926-02-09

Verbatim Date: 2/9/1926

Locality: Polynesia, American Samoa, Tutuila, Matafao; 2 mi. from shore; below 'sub-peak' on connecting ridge of Matafao

-14.295026  -170.70278 +-1570m.  WGS84

Habitat: [ELEVATION: 1500-16 feet]; on ieie + pandanus

Substrate: [TERRESTRIAL]; [in type collection -DKB] Group "LXXII". {PSA (1/26/98)-Part of a group of lots with note that states: p 51/Diastole (s.s.) matafaoi H.B.B. In old box: 9138, from which the specimens were removed and placed into the type collection, note with box states: n sp/P& C/28-VIII-33, and part of a group of lots with note that states: Diastole Matafaoi, and label states: type col.-PSA}. {PSA (2/19/98)-Catalogue remarks state: Drowned 12 hrs. 30% alc. in a few days changed to 40%/paratype

Dry Count: 1

Notes: Collected

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Record ID: a14f58c1-0710-44c7-8fed-6422c530e43f

For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Norine Yeung (norine@bishopmuseum.org)