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Rounded batfish

Zalieutes elater

Classification

Zalieutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep sea batfishes. The species in this genus are benthic fishes found in deep waters in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy Zalieutes was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1896 by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann with Malthe elater as its type species by monotypy.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Mexico · 2United States of America · 2