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Gymnothorax elegans

Elegant Moray

IUCN: least concernmarine

Bliss, 1883Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 217493 ↗

6

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1970

First collected

1993

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1970s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1970 by Horace Hokama, via Spencer W. Tinker (Oʻahu).