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Canthigaster amboinensis

Ambon Puffer

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Bleeker, 1864)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 219935 ↗

25

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1953

First collected

1996

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1950s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1953 by W.A. Gosline, J.E. Randall, and Gilbertese fisherman (Wake Island).