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Xiphasia matsubarai

Japanese snake blenny

IUCN: least concernmarine

Okada & Suzuki, 1952Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 219344 ↗

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1970

First collected

1988

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1970s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1970 by R/V "Charles H. Gilbert" cruise 117 (Olosega Island).