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Clown Anglerfish

Antennarius maculatus

Classification

The warty frogfish or clown frogfish (Antennarius maculatus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. The warty frogfish is found in the Indo-Pacific region. Taxonomy The warty frogfish was first formally described as Chironectes maculatus in 1840 by the French zoologist Julien François Desjardins with its type locality given as Mauritius.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 1