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Dendrochirus barberi

Hawaiian Lionfish

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Steindachner, 1900)WoRMS treats this as a synonym of Neochirus barberi.WoRMS 277714 ↗

34

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1991

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Dendrochirus barberi, most mentions first.

  1. 2001

    Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 1999

    Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, Hawaii

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2010

    Marine biota information base for offshore islets in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Coles, S.L. & Swenson, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2008

    Assessment of species composition, diversity and biomass in marine habitats and subhaqbitats around offshore islets in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Coles, S.L., Giuseffi, L. & Hutchinson, M. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by C.H. Edmondson (Oʻahu).