Ophichthus altipennis
Blackfinned Snake Eel
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Kaup, 1856)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 271937 ↗
Photo: (c) J. Martin Crossley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by J. Martin Crossley (iNaturalist)
6
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1974
First collected
2005
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Two centuries of collecting
1970s2000s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1974 by J.E. Randall, R.C. Wass, and C.A. Wass (Tutuila Island).