Istiophorus platypterus
Atlantic sailfish
IUCN: vulnerablevulnerablemarine
(Shaw, 1792)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 158812 ↗
Photo: (c) Robin Hughes, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) (iNaturalist)
3
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1968
First collected
1983
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1960s1980s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1968 by R/V "Charles H. Gilbert" cruise 109 (Oʻahu).