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Scolecenchelys macroptera

Narrow Worm Eel

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Bleeker, 1857)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 282718 ↗

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12

Bishop specimens

1

Type specimens

1900

First collected

2005

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1900 by A. Seale (Guam).