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Peristernia

marine

Mörch, 1852Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 206109 ↗

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39

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1902

First collected

1996

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Peristernia, most mentions first.

  1. 2001

    Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  2. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  3. 2006

    Inventory of intertidal and shallow subtidal marine invertebrates at Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Moloka`i, Hawai`i

    Godwin, S. & Bolick, H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  4. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  5. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  6. 2002

  7. 1999

    Nonindigenous marine species introductions in the harbors of the south and west shores of Oahu, Hawaii

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by A. Seale; A. Seale (Makatea). The Museum last collected it in 1996; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as October 4, 2026.

From the collection

Peristernia, 205733Peristernia, 205737Peristernia, 205738Peristernia, 205743Peristernia, 205752Peristernia, 221936Peristernia, 258426Peristernia, 258429Peristernia, 68466Peristernia, 205742Peristernia, 221428Peristernia, 66613

Alive today

129 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.