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Epinephelus merra

Birdwire Rockcod

IUCN: least concernmarine

Bloch, 1793Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 218228 ↗

58

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1900

First collected

1996

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Epinephelus merra, most mentions first.

  1. 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 · 2 pages

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1900 by A. Seale (Guam).