Priacanthus tayenus
Purple-spotted Bigeye
IUCN: least concernmarine
Richardson, 1846Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 273768 ↗
5
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1975
First collected
2007
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
2 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1970s2000s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1975 by J.E. Randall and K. Rama Rao, aboard F/V "Meena Gaveshini" (Madras).