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Gymnothorax rueppelliae

Banded Reef-eel

IUCN: least concernmarinebrackish

(McClelland, 1844)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 217477 ↗

37

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1996

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by "Tanager" Expedition (Wake Island).