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Pterygia

marine

Röding, 1798Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 204017 ↗

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1940

First collected

1959

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Pterygia, most mentions first.

  1. 2004

    Assessment of nonindigenous species on coral reefs in the Hawaiian Islands, with emphasis on introduced invertebrates

    Coles, S.L., L.G. Eldredge, F. Kandel, P.R. Reath & K. Longenecker · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1940s1950s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1940 by Grace Burgess [C.M. Burgess Collection] (Niʻihau).

From the collection

Pterygia, 219966Pterygia, 283476Pterygia, 283477Pterygia, 238528