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Golden kali kali

Erythrocles scintillans

Classification

Erythrocles is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Emmelichthyidae, the rovers, bonnetmouths or rubyfishes. The fishes in this genus are found in the western Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Taxonomy Erythrocles was first proposed as a genus name in 1919 by the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan as a replacement for Erythtichthys, a name proposed by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel in 1845 but which was preoccupied by a name proposed by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831 as an unnecessary replacement for the trahira genus Erythrinus Scopoli,…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1