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Bigtooth Corvina

Isopisthus parvipinnis

Classification

Isopisthus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy Isopisthus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1862 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Ancylodon parvipinnis, originally described by Georges Cuvier in 1830 with its type locality given as Cayenne, designated as its type species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 128France · 13