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Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus

Pixy Hawkfish, Coral hawkfish

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Bleeker, 1855)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 218853 ↗

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Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1924

First collected

1996

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

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1924 by "Whippoorwill" Expedition (Kiritimati Atoll).