Brotula townsendi
Townsend's Cusk Eel
IUCN: least concernmarine
Fowler, 1900Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 275891 ↗
5
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1979
First collected
1989
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Brotula townsendi, most mentions first.
2001
Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Two centuries of collecting
1970s1980s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1979 by J.E. Randall and L.A. Maugé (New Caledonia).