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Small-toothed Whiptail

Pentapodus caninus

Classification

Pentapodus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nemipteridae, the threadfin breams. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region. Taxonomy Pentapodus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1824 by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard when they described Pentapodus vitta from Shark Bay in Western Australia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 13France · 1