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Roughback Batfish

Ogcocephalus parvus

Classification

Ogcocephalus parvus, the roughback batfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the batfishes. This species has a wide distribution in the Western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Ogcocephalus parvus was first formally described in 1940 by the American biologists William Harding Longley and Samuel Frederick Hildebrand with its type locality given as Tortugas, Florida from a depth between 40 and 60 fathoms (240 and 360 ft; 73 and 110 m).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 32Cuba · 1