Chaetodon melapterus
Arabian butterflyfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
Guichenot, 1863Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 218751 ↗
7
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1977
First collected
1985
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Two centuries of collecting
1970s1980s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1977 by J.E. Randall (Bahrain).