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Acanthurus leucosternon

Blue Surgeonfish

IUCN: least concernmarine

Bennett, 1833Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 219628 ↗

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1964

First collected

1988

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Acanthurus leucosternon, most mentions first.

  1. 2006

    Numbers of Hawaiian species for 2003–2005

    Eldredge, L.G. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  2. 2004

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2004: -05: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1960s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1964 by H.A. Fehlmann (D'Arros Island).