Uropterygius macrocephalus
Largehead Snake Moray
IUCN: least concernmarine
(Bleeker, 1864)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 212037 ↗
29
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1923
First collected
1996
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Uropterygius macrocephalus, most mentions first.
2002
Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘iColes, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
2001
Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
3 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1990s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by H.G. Hornbostel (Guam).