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quillfish

Ptilichthys goodei

Classification

The quillfish (Ptilichthys goodei) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, it is the only species in the genus Ptilichthys and family Ptilichthyidae. This fish occurs in the northern North Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy The quillfish was first formally described in 1881 by the American ichthyologist Tarleton Hoffman Bean with its type locality given as the entrance to Port Levasheff in Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.

Distribution

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United States of America · 39Canada · 20