This moth was endemic to Laysan Island, one of the Outlying Hawaiian Islands, United States.
The Tanager Expedition was a series of five biological surveys of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands conducted in partnership between the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bishop Museum, with the assistance of the U.S. Navy.
Canary Islands | Northwestern University | Faroe Islands | Solomon Islands | Channel Islands | Falkland Islands | Marshall Islands | South Shetland Islands | Hawaiian Islands | Pacific Islands | Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | Aleutian Islands | Cook Islands | Balearic Islands | British Virgin Islands | Cayman Islands | Channel Islands of California | Andaman Islands | Ryukyu Islands | Galápagos Islands | Chatham Islands | Caroline Islands | U.S. Virgin Islands | Northern Mariana Islands | Virgin Islands | Lau Islands | Faroe Islands national football team | Åland Islands | Hawaiian language | Galapagos Islands |
It is found in Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii, Nihoa, Necker Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Midway, Kure, Wake island, Canton island, Jarvis island, but is probably much more widely distributed in the Pacific.
Recently, a mission funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered seven new species of bamboo coral in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, a U.S. National Monument lying primarily in deep waters off the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, using the Pisces V.
It is also found on Lisianski Island, Laysan, the French Frigate Shoals, Necker Island, and Nihoa.
It is endemic to Oahu, Molokai, Nihoa, Necker Island, French Frigate Shoals and Laysan.
Specimens from Necker Island and Nihoa (northwest of Kaua'i) did not fit into the four defined morphotypes.
It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known from Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii, Nihoa and Necker Island.
It is endemic to Necker Island, Nihoa, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii.
It was endemic to Laysan Island, one of the Outlying Hawaiian Islands, United States.
Schiedea verticillata, known as the Nihoa Carnation, is an endangered species of carnation, endemic to the island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where it was discovered in 1923 by the Tanager Expedition.
In June 2006, George W. Bush declared the atoll and all other parts of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.