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Thalassoma hardwicke

Parrotfish

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Bennett, 1830)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 212217 ↗

Photo: (c) François Libert, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by François Libert (iNaturalist)

16

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1902

First collected

1988

Last collected

2023

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by W.A. Bryan (Minami Tori Shima). The Museum last collected it in 1988; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as December 4, 2023.

Alive today

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