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Sauvage's Thornfish

Bovichtus veneris

Classification

Bovichtus is a genus of fish in the family Bovichtidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Bovichtus was formally described as a genus in 1832 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes with Callionymus diacanthus, which had been described by the Scottish botanist and officer in the British Army Dugald Carmichael in 1819 with the type locality given as Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, as the type species. The name of the genus, Bovichtus, is derived from bovus meaning "bull" and ichthys which means fish, based on the local name for Bovichtus species in…

Distribution

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