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Littoral Crozet spiny plounderfish

Harpagifer crozetensis

Classification

Harpagifer, the spiny plunderfishes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, belonging to the subfamily Harpagiferinae, it is the only genus in this monotypic subfamily. They are found in the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy The genus Harpagifer was described in 1844 by the Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer John Richardson, with Batrachus bispinis, a species which had been described in 1801 by Johann Reinhold Forster, as its type species by monotypy.

Distribution

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