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Sala y Gomez deep-water boarfish

Antigonia aurorosea

Classification

Family
Caproidae

Antigonia is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antigoniidae, the deepwater boarfishes, of which it is the only extant genus. This genus is found in the warmer oceans around the world. Taxonomy Antigonia was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1843 by the English zoologist Richard Thomas Lowe when he described Antigonia capros as a new species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog