Belonoperca pylei
Dr. Seuss Soapfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
Baldwin & Smith, 1998Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 277500 ↗
4
Bishop specimens
2
Type specimens
1989
First collected
2007
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
1980s2000s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1989 by R.L. Pyle (Rarotonga).