Pervagor melanocephalus
Black-headed Leather-jacket
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Bleeker, 1853)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 220071 ↗
19
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1923
First collected
2002
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Pervagor melanocephalus, most mentions first.
2002
Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
3 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1920s2000s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by "Tanager" Expedition (Johnston Atoll).