Bishop MuseumExplore

Choerodon cauteroma

Bluespotted Tuskfish

IUCN: least concernmarine

Gomon & Allen, 1987Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 277265 ↗

Photo: (c) J. Martin Crossley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by J. Martin Crossley (iNaturalist)

2

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1964

First collected

1973

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1960s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1964 by Poole brothers (Western Australia).