Chaetodon leucopleura
Somali butterflyfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
Playfair, 1867Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 218750 ↗
Photo: (c) Ewout Knoester, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Ewout Knoester (iNaturalist)
3
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1973
First collected
1993
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
2 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1970s1990s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1973 by J.E. Randall (Tanzania).