Melichthys indicus
Black triggerfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
Randall & Klausewitz, 1973Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 219882 ↗
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5
Bishop specimens
1
Type specimens
1958
First collected
1993
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
1950s1990s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1958 by R. Jonklass (Trincomalee).