Gymnothorax melatremus
Blackspot Moray
IUCN: least concernmarine
Schultz, 1953Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 217481 ↗
42
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1967
First collected
2005
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Gymnothorax melatremus, most mentions first.
2010
Marine biota information base for offshore islets in the main Hawaiian IslandsColes, S.L. & Swenson, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
2002
Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
6 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1960s2000s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1967 by J.E. Randall and C. Powell (Enewetak Atoll).