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Halichoeres papilionaceus

Schwatz's Wrasse

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Valenciennes, 1839)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 275785 ↗

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1933

First collected

1989

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1930s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1933 by A.W.C.T. Herre (Palau Islands).