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Pacific tripletail

Lobotes pacifica

Classification

Family
Lobotidae

Lobotes pacifica, the Pacific tripletail or West Coast tripletail, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lobotidae, the tripletails and tiger perches. This species is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Lobotes pacifica was first formally described in 1898 by the American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert with its type locality given as Panama.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 1