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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2023-01-19
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Misidentification of Ophidion imitator Lea, 1997 as Otophidium indefatigabile Jordan & Bollman, 1890 (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae: Ophidiinae)

1Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118.
2Marine Vertebrate Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0244, USA.
3Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama.
Pisces Ophidiiformes Ophidiidae Ophidiinae

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