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Channel Bull Blenny

Cottoperca gobio

Classification

Cottoperca is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bovichtidae, the temperate icefishes or thornfishes. They are found in the southeastern Pacific, southwestern Atlantic and northern Southern Oceans off southern South America. Taxonomy Cottoperca was first formally described as a genus in 1875 by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner with Cottoperca rosenbergii which Steindachner described as its only species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog