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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyZoarcidae
  5. ›genusMelanostigma
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Melanostigma vitiazi

Melanostigma vitiazi Parin, 1980

Also calledLoquettine à queue claire (fra)

First described in: Parin, N. V. (1980). Melanostigma (Bandichthys) vitiazi -- a new deep-sea fish (Melanostigmatidae, Osteichthyes) from the Banda Sea. <em>Voprosy Ikhtiologii.</em> 19 (1), 1980: 167-170. [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology 19 (1):150-153.].

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209500.