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Harpa goodwini

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Harpa goodwini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Harpidae
Genus: Harpa
Species:
H. goodwini
Binomial name
Harpa goodwini
Rehder, 1993

Harpa goodwini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Harpidae, the harp snails.[1]

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Hawaii.

References

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  1. ^ Harpa goodwini Rehder, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Rehder, H.A., 1993. A new species of Harpa from the Leeward Islands of Hawaï. The Nautilus 106(4): 127-129
  • Dance S.P. & Poppe G.T. (1999). Family Harpidae. In : A Conchological Iconography. ConchBooks. 69 pp.


Discovered by a German Scientist on a boat called Goode Wind,[Love Harp-SeaShell,Recovered at "Waikai Ilio,("Water of the Dog")while taking University of Hawaii Students aboard during a deepsea trawl. While movie Waterworld was produced,@ Kawaihae,(meaning=Fight for water] German scientist,didn't tell her he Registered his find,a Marine Sea snail; Love-Harpa on vessel Goode Wind,(thus,moniker; Goodwini. Nancy Grifith,(Singlehanded her 50'ft. Steelhull around the World,Below the 38'degree paralell.

Posted by, doctawhite,friend of Nancy and her 2nd husband Robert,a Hawaiian from Napoopoo,invited Heidi J.Roden &infant Ohai Hiapo Roden-White to stay with them at their Fourteen Room Mansion,in Kona-Hawai'i Big Island,E'a.

[Though,Robert was in his sixties,helped carry a car engine and we used it as anchor in Keauhou bay,approved by Kahunanui, Supreme Minister of West Hawai'i,& Welcomed by Admiral Jack Ross,of Keauhou Yacht Club,& Friends Kenny Llanes Sr.& Johhy Andrade Jr.with his vessel MELEANA A.]