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Genicanthus

Swallowtail Angelfishes

marine

Swainson, 1839Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 206678 ↗

10

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1969

First collected

1972

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

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

  1. 2023

    Monitoring the diurnal and seasonal foraging of Hawaiian monk seals in mesophotic rubble habitat using seafloor event loggers called “electric rocks”

    Parrish, F.A., R.C. Boland, M. Sawyer, B. Greene, B. Buhleier, and G.M. Marshall · Museum research publication · 1 page

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Two centuries of collecting

1960s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1969 by J.E. Randall (Tahiti).