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Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00161

Metaxia brunnicephala

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Metaxia brunnicephala — source-informed Atlas ecological reconstruction; not a specimen photograph or evidence of current abundance.
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About Metaxia brunnicephala

Bishop Museum Technical Report 29 visually confirms the species at a Kauai station in the present-study table.

MolluscaBase/WoRMS AphiaID 565194 was inspected: source name Metaxia brunnicephala; status accepted; accepted name Metaxia brunnicephala.

The primary survey sampled Kauai harbors and nearby coral reefs, within the locked shallow marine scope.

Accepted taxonomy and an exact Kauai station mark in a dated authoritative shallow-water survey close the record.

Names and classification

Scientific name
Metaxia brunnicephala
Other names
Metaxia brunnicephala
Record type
species

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Kauaʻi occurrence
Historical: detected by the dated 2003-2004 authoritative survey, before the 2016-10-01 current-status cutoff.
Origin
Origin not inferred from occurrence census
Conservation status
Not assessed
Evidence limits
Occurrence category and evidence are source-bounded. Abundance, trend, and living status are not inferred beyond the reviewed evidence.

Habitat and ecology

Habitats
Marine reef and nearshore

Process and seasonal context

Seasonal description
Metaxia brunnicephala is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Accepted taxonomy and an exact Kauai station mark in a dated authoritative shallow-water survey close the record.

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