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Red Scorpionfish

Pontinus furcirhinus

Classification

Pontinus furcirhinus, one of a number of species known as the "red scorpionfish", is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Pontinus furcirhinus was first formally described in 1899 by the American zoologist Samuel Garman, with the type locality given as northeast of the Galápagos Islands.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 2