Bodianus mesothorax
Black-belt Hogfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 273536 ↗
11
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1966
First collected
1978
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
3 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1960s1970s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1966 by J.E. Randall, V.E. Brock, and T. Boisek (Ulebsechel Island).