Hygophum proximum
Firefly lanternfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
Becker, 1965Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 217700 ↗
3
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1967
First collected
1971
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
2 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1960s1970s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1967 by R/V "Townsend Cromwell" cruise 32, station 74 (Hawaiʻi Island).