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Cheilinus oxycephalus

Plain-faced Maori Wrasse

IUCN: least concernmarine

Bleeker, 1853Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 218947 ↗

28

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1957

First collected

1988

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

5 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1950s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1957 by J.E. Randall (Nukuhiva).