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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Malacology

(BPBM:MAL)

Taxon: Diastole schmeltziana Mousson, 1865
Family: Euconulidae

Collector: Samoan Exped.      

Date: 1926-03-23

Verbatim Date: 3/23/1926

Locality: Polynesia, American Samoa, Tutuila, Leone-Aoloau trail

-14.325211  -170.778926 +-1582m.  WGS84

Georeference Remarks: Unsure where trail is

Habitat: [ELEVATION: 700-900 feet]; on ferns, shrubs, trees, damp

Substrate: [TERRESTRIAL]; [in type collection -DKB] Group "XCII". Label states: inf. {PSA (1/26/98)-Part of a group of lots with note that states: 84756-58/Diastole (T.nita) schmeltziana >usurpata. In old box: 9139, from which the specimens were removed and placed into the type collection, label states: type col.-PSA}. {PSA (3/19/98)-Catalogue remarks state: drowned overnight in 40% alc./inf.-PSA}

Dry Count: 1

Notes: Collected

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Record ID: b46eb076-c176-471b-8c23-b80b9db54e4a

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