Pterois sphex
Hawaiian turkeyfish
IUCN: least concernmarine
Jordan & Evermann, 1903WoRMS treats this as a synonym of Pteropterus sphex.WoRMS 276269 ↗
25
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1911
First collected
1972
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Where Bishop collected it
7 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1910s1970s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1911 by J.W. Thompson (Oʻahu).