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High-hat

Pareques acuminatus

Classification

Pareques acuminatus, commonly known as the high-hat, donkeyfish, cubbyu, Steindachner's ribbonfish, streaked ribbonfish, striped ribbonfish or striped drum, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the genus Pareques in the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. This species is found in the western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Pareques acuminatus was first formally described in 1801, based on Albertus Seba's 1759 Chaetodon, lineis fuscis, longitudinalibus, varius, by the German naturalists Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider without a type locality being…

Distribution

Jeffrey T. Williams · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 757Mexico · 73France · 69Brazil · 38Netherlands · 28United Kingdom · 18Cuba · 6