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Plesiops insularis

Coral Sea Longfin

marine

Mooi & Randall, 1991Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 276816 ↗

Photo: (c) David R, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by David R (iNaturalist)

11

Bishop specimens

9

Type specimens

1971

First collected

1991

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1970s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1971 by J.E. Randall, R.D. Randall, P. Fourmanoir, R. Grandperrin, and P. Rual (New Caledonia).