Tonna melanostoma
Black mouthed tun
marine
(J. C. Jay, 1839)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 410265 ↗
16
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1923
First collected
1980
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Tonna melanostoma, most mentions first.
2002
Records of shallow-water marine invertebrates from French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands with a note on nonindigenous speciesDeFelice, R., D. Minton & S. Godwin · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
12 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1980s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by D. Thaanum (French Frigate Shoals).
From the collection
