Chaetodon mertensii
Atoll Butterflyfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
Cuvier, 1831Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 273347 ↗
19
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1967
First collected
2002
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
3 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1960s2000s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1967 by J.E. Randall (Tahiti).