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Sargassum muticum

Jap weed

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) J. Maughn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) (iNaturalist)

16

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1950

First collected

1999

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

1950s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1950 by Doty, M.S. (200 yards NW of Fossil Point in Coos Bay, Coos County).

From the collection

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