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Hincksia

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1946

First collected

2003

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

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

  1. 2018

    New species records and voucher specimens of marine benthic algae from Kah‘olawe, main Hawaiian Islands

    Tsuda, R.T. & Abbott, I.A. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2017

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2017: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  4. 1999

    Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, Hawaii

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  5. 1998

    Determination of baseline conditions for introduced marine species in nearshore waters of the of Kaho‘olawe, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, J.E. Smith, D. Muir & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1946 by Abbott, I.A. (Oʻahu). The Museum last collected it in 2003; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as October 6, 2026.

From the collection

Hincksia, 515999Hincksia, 639816Hincksia, 701645Hincksia, 513846Hincksia, 513097Hincksia, 700694Hincksia, 513941Hincksia, 513847Hincksia, 706578Hincksia, 700685Hincksia, 700687Hincksia, 524089

Alive today

75 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.