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Goode, G. B., Bean, T. H. 1895. Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. 2 464, 123 plates.
Type Status:
Lectotype
Syntype
Place:
General position: Havana, Cuba, to Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean
Collection Date:
30 Jan 1885
Notes:
1 to stanford; character of bottom, coral. sand; 3 out as 204925 paralectotype.