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Chelmon rostratus

Banded Longsnout Butterflyfish

IUCN: least concernmarinebrackish

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 218758 ↗

Photo: (c) caron_wong, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1964

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 1964 by R.H. Snider (Heron Island).