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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Malacology

(BPBM:MAL)

Taxon: Nesopupa godeffroyi Boettger, 1881
Family: Vertiginidae

Collector: Samoan Exped.      

Date: 1926-03-29

Verbatim Date: 3/29/1926

Locality: Polynesia, American Samoa, Tutuila, Utulei; just W. of village; road bank; 20 ft. from shore

-14.277088  -170.685829 +-464m.  WGS84

Habitat: [ELEVATION: 6-10 feet]; on stones + dead leaves, damp

Substrate: [TERRESTRIAL]; Group "LII C". Label states: very close to dentifera + pleurophora/Type Island Samoa/Mau. Conch p 330./CMC 8.XII.37. Note states: on loan to R. Preece/Univ. of Cambridge/BPBM Loan BP-16666. {PSA (2/6/98)-In old box: 9158, from which the specimens were removed and placed into the type collection, label states: Type col. Nes.pa Polynesia, and part of a group of lots with note that states: Nespa godeffroyi/LII C./CMC 8.XII.37-PSA}. {PSA (3/19/98)-Catalogue remarks state: drowned ov

Preparations: Average count

Notes: Collected

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Record ID: 61573bca-318c-4d88-b982-2b3b4735aaf7

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