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Myctophum nitidulum

Lantern fish

IUCN: least concernmarine

Garman, 1899Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 126626 ↗

5

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1923

First collected

1969

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by T.T. Dranga (Pearl and Hermes Atoll).