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Pterygia dactylus

finger miter

marine

(Linnaeus, 1767)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 417000 ↗

16

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1922

First collected

1995

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

1920s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1922 by D. D. Thaanum; Thaanum (Palmyra Atoll).

From the collection

Pterygia dactylus, 238504Pterygia dactylus, 238499Pterygia dactylus, 238501Pterygia dactylus, 238503Pterygia dactylus, 238505Pterygia dactylus, 238506Pterygia dactylus, 238509Pterygia dactylus, 238510Pterygia dactylus, 238513Pterygia dactylus, 238502Pterygia dactylus, 238511Pterygia dactylus, 238512