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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Malacology

(BPBM:MAL)

Taxon: Samoana conica
Family: Partulidae

Collector: Samoan Exped.      

Date: 1926-03-31

Verbatim Date: 3/31/1926

Locality: Polynesia, American Samoa, Tutuila, Laulii Valley; central ridge

-14.281426  -170.652537 +-836m.  WGS84

Habitat: [ELEVATION: 100-500 feet]; on ferns, shrubs, tree trunks, damp

Substrate: [TERRESTRIAL]; Group "XXXV". Label states: P 2 eggs/+ 2 emb from eggs/+ note. Note states: 2 eggs. Emb-shells at different stages of development. {PSA (8/27/97)-The specimen is in a vial with an embryo-PSA}. {PSA (4/2/98)-Catalogue remarks state: drowned overnight in 40% alc./emb. shells at diff. stages of develop., 2 egg-PSA}. {PSA (4/2/98)-Catalogue table insert states: 85218-32, conica/not P 5 (gen. ex. 1), p 1 egg 1, p 2 egg 17 (parasit 1, emb. at different stages of development 13), p 3 e

Dry Count: 1

Notes: Collected

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Record ID: 47bdbd21-db3f-497f-9833-2597c4315eac

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