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Jellynose

Ijimaia antillarum

Classification

The jellynose fishes or tadpole fishes are the small order Ateleopodiformes. This group of ray-finned fish is monotypic, containing a single family Ateleopodidae. It has about a dozen species in four genera, but these enigmatic fishes are in need of taxonomic revision.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1