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Bigeye Smooth-head

Bajacalifornia megalops

Classification

Bajacalifornia is a genus of slickheads. It was described in 1925 by Charles Haskins Townsend and John Treadwell Nichols on the basis of Bajacalifornia burragei which was discovered in 1911 during the deep sea expedition of the research vessel USS Albatross off the coast of Todos Santos Bay at the Baja California peninsula. In 1952 Ichthyologist Albert Eide Parr published a revision of this genus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Chile · 38Iceland · 4Ireland · 4Canada · 1