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Pacific Smalleye Croaker

Nebris occidentalis

Classification

Nebris is a small genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. There are two species in the genus, one in the Western Atlantic Ocean and one in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Nebris was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1830 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier when he described Nbris microps from Surinam.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog