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Etelis carbunculus

Deep-water red snapper, Deepwater red snapper, Ruby snapper

IUCN: least concernmarine

Cuvier, 1828Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 212545 ↗

Photo: (c) mscott, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) (iNaturalist)

17

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1901

First collected

1986

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

1900s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1901 by U.S. Fish Commission (Oʻahu).