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Tripletail

Lobotes surinamensis

Classification

Family
Lobotidae

Lobotes is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Lobotidae known as the tripletails. These fishes are found in subtropical and tropical waters in all oceans. Taxonomy Lobotes was first proposed as a genus in 1830 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with Holocentrus surinamensis, originally described by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1790 from Suriname, as its type species.

Distribution

Wes Toller · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 4Italy · 2France · 1