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Tetrapturus angustirostris

Hatchet Marlin

marine

Tanaka, 1915Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 219734 ↗

Photo: (c) Brady Moore-Woedl, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Brady Moore-Woedl (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1965

First collected

1983

Last collected

2024

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1960s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1965 by R/V "Townsend Cromwell" cruise 19 (Oʻahu). The Museum last collected it in 1983; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as March 27, 2024.

Alive today

1 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.