Paracanthurus hepatus
Blue Hippo Tang
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Linnaeus, 1766)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 219676 ↗
6
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1968
First collected
1987
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Paracanthurus hepatus, most mentions first.
2001
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001: -02: Suppl. 2Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
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 J.E. Randall (Fanning Island).