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Eviota cometa

Comet Eviota

IUCN: least concernmarine

Jewett & Lachner, 1983Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 278583 ↗

5

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1980

First collected

2004

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1980s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1980 by V.G. Springer, K.A. Bruwelheide, R.A. Croft, L.H. Strauss, and T. Purdon (Pohnpei).