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Asparagopsis taxiformis

Supreme Limu

495

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1855

First collected

2025

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1850s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1855 by Dawson, E.Y. (Enewetak Atoll).

From the collection

Asparagopsis taxiformis, 188939Asparagopsis taxiformis, 188944Asparagopsis taxiformis, 694663Asparagopsis taxiformis, 775885Asparagopsis taxiformis, 739857Asparagopsis taxiformis, 739690Asparagopsis taxiformis, 739836Asparagopsis taxiformis, 662794Asparagopsis taxiformis, 517209Asparagopsis taxiformis, 740348Asparagopsis taxiformis, 693739Asparagopsis taxiformis, 524680