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Opistognathus cyanospilotus

Blue-spotted jawfish

IUCN: least concernmarine

Smith-Vaniz, 2009Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 712625 ↗

Photo: (c) jeyre, some rights reserved (CC BY) (iNaturalist)

2

Bishop specimens

2

Type specimens

1979

First collected

1980

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

1970s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1979 by J.E. Randall (Ko Miang).