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Apogonichthyoides melas

Black Cardinalfish

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Bleeker, 1848)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 712635 ↗

7

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1944

First collected

1995

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1944 by W. Chapman (New Georgia).