Chaetodontoplus melanosoma
Black Velvet Angelfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Bleeker, 1853)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 280119 ↗
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3
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1969
First collected
1978
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Two centuries of collecting
1960s1970s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1969 by E.S. Herald and ~. Dempster (Philippines).