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crescent gunnel

Pholis laeta

Classification

Family
Pholidae

The crescent gunnel (Pholis laeta), also known as the bracketed blenny, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Pholidae, the gunnels. This fish occurs in the shallow coastal waters of the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy The crescent gunnel was first formally described in 1873 by the American paleontologist and biologist Edward Drinker Cope with the type locality given as Sitka or Unalaska in Alaska.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 512United States of America · 372