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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Malacology

(BPBM:MAL)

Taxon: Diastole schmeltziana Mousson, 1865
Family: Euconulidae

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: 500-800 feet]; on ferns, shrubs, tree trunks, also a few on dead leaves, mostly aboreal, damp

Substrate: [TERRESTRIAL]; Label states: high spire/an. with coarse white mottling. {PSA (2/4/98)-Group numbers in this box have been mixed up and the lots therein could be from the following groups: "XXXIII", "XXXIV", "XXXV", "XXXVI", "XL" or "XLI"-PSA}. {PSA (4/2/98)-Catalogue remarks state: drowned overnight in 40% alc./high spire, An. with coarse light mottling, darker-PSA}

Dry Count: 9

Notes: Collected

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Record ID: 18757dbc-1681-40c7-927f-6944260a2e22

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