There is a collection of hundreds of marine shells from French Polynesia that could be inventoried for Inaturalist. It was started around 50 years ago and contains potentially 300 different species. The problem is that the original collector has passed away and, although the vast majority of shell…

I would say: almost no value at all.

Value of a large collection of shells without accurate location?

tiwane August 9, 2022, 11:02pm 3

iNat’s not really a place to upload collections you didn’t make (maybe GBIF would be better).

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