Bishop MuseumExplore

Sardinella melanura

Blacktip sardinella

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Cuvier, 1829)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 212271 ↗

Photo: (c) Martin Holladay, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Martin Holladay (iNaturalist)

8

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1959

First collected

1994

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1950s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1959 by R/V "Charles H. Gilbert" cruise 43, station 39 (Tahiti).