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Fossarus

marine

R. A. Philippi, 1841Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 138022 ↗

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

12

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1916

First collected

2017

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Fossarus, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

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

  2. 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

  3. 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 · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1910s2010s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1916 by W.A. & E.L. Bryan (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

Fossarus, 196640Fossarus, 196647Fossarus, 63686Fossarus, 63685Fossarus, 197856Fossarus, 197857Fossarus, 200958Fossarus, 63688Fossarus, 63690Fossarus, 63699Fossarus, 63689

Alive today

3 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.