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Creseis acicula

Needle Sea Butterfly

marine

(Rang, 1828)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 139034 ↗

2

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1914

First collected

1926

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1920s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1914 by Thaanum, Ditlev (Gulf Stream).

From the collection

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