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Callechelys catostoma

Black-striped Snake Eel

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Schneider, 1801)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 217563 ↗

Photo: (c) Derrick Cruz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Derrick Cruz (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1922

First collected

2002

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1920s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1922 by L.A. Thurston and D. Thaanum (Palmyra Atoll).