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Guyanan croaker

Pachypops fourcroi

Classification

Pachypops is a small genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The three recognised species in the genus are found in South America. Taxonomy Pachypops was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Micropogon trifilis designated as its type species, and only species.

Distribution

Joachim Langeneck · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 1