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Carapus

Pearlfishes

marine

Rafinesque, 1810Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 125853 ↗

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1987

First collected

1992

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Carapus, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  2. 2001

    Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1980s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1987 by Claude Massin (Port Moresby).