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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familySerranidae
  5. ›genusAcanthistius
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Peruvian Seabass

Acanthistius pictus (Tschudi, 1846)

Also calledCherlo (spa) · Garoupa-peruana (por) · Mero ojirayado (spa) · Nero maó (cat) · Vieja colorada (spa) · kanic chilský (ces) · 花刺鮨 (zho)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution: eastern South Pacific: off Ecuador, Peru, and Chile.

Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)

materials_examined

Type locality: coast of middle Peru; market at Valparaíso, Chile. Illustrations: Béarez & Jiménez Prado, 2003: 109, fig. 6; Kuiter, 2004: 123. D: XI, 17 or 18. A: III, 8 or 9. P: 20. C: 17 (9 + 8). GR: 20 (7 + 13). LL: 60 to 62.

Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2388072.