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Caulerpa taxifolia

Caulerpa, Killer alga, Sea weed

Photo: (c) Richard Ling, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) (iNaturalist)

223

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1915

First collected

2021

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Caulerpa taxifolia, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  2. 1999

    Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, Hawaii

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  3. 1998

    Determination of baseline conditions for introduced marine species in nearshore waters of the of Kaho‘olawe, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, J.E. Smith, D. Muir & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  4. 2010

    New islet records of marine benthic algae from offshore islets associated with O‘ahu, Maui, Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Fisher, J., Giuseffi, L., Tsuda, R.T., Abbott, I.A. & Coles, S.L. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  5. 2020

    Marine benthic algae from Ni‘ihau and adjacent Lehua Islet, Main Hawaiian Islands

    Tsuda, R.T., Abbott, I.A., Spalding, H.L., Giuseffi, L.M., Okano, R., Kennedy, B.H. & Sherwood, A.R. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 2019

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2019: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 2018

    New species records and voucher specimens of marine benthic algae from Kah‘olawe, main Hawaiian Islands

    Tsuda, R.T. & Abbott, I.A. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 2017

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2017: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1915 by Howe, M.A. (Guanica Harbor).

From the collection

Caulerpa taxifolia, 515664Caulerpa taxifolia, 524240Caulerpa taxifolia, 698629Caulerpa taxifolia, 543199Caulerpa taxifolia, 518943Caulerpa taxifolia, 518942Caulerpa taxifolia, 701475Caulerpa taxifolia, 628097Caulerpa taxifolia, 543197Caulerpa taxifolia, 701470Caulerpa taxifolia, 712199Caulerpa taxifolia, 639818

Alive today

28 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.