Pontinus macrocephalus
Large-headed scorpionfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Sauvage, 1882)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 274689 ↗
9
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1968
First collected
2004
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Pontinus macrocephalus, most mentions first.
2001
Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · 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
1960s2000s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1968 by P.J. Struhsaker, aboard R/V "Townsend Cromwell" cruise 35, station 12 (Hawaiʻi Island).