Caracanthus maculatus
Scarlet-spotted Velvetfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Gray, 1831)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 220364 ↗
23
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1913
First collected
1996
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Caracanthus maculatus, most mentions first.
2002
Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Two centuries of collecting
1910s1990s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1913 by C.M. Cooke, Jr (Palmyra Atoll).