Acanthurus mata
Bleeker's Surgeonfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Cuvier, 1829)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 219651 ↗
8
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1968
First collected
1985
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Acanthurus mata, most mentions first.
2002
Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
1999
Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, HawaiiColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
1997
Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic speciesColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Two centuries of collecting
1960s1980s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1968 by J.E. Randall (Enewetak Atoll).