Chaetodon melannotus
Black-back Butterflyfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
Bloch & Schneider, 1801Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 218743 ↗
11
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1964
First collected
1994
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1960s1990s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1964 by R.H. Snider (Heron Island).