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Oblique-banded Snapper

Pristipomoides zonatus

Classification

Pristipomoides is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lutjanidae, the snappers. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Taxonomy Pristipomoides was created by the Dutch ichthyologist, herpetologist and physician Pieter Bleeker in 1852 as a monotypic genus with Pristipomoides typus as its only species, this species therefore being the type species of the genus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 23France · 2