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Bluestriped Chub
Kyphosus ocyurus
Kyphosus ocyurus is a part of the fish family Kyphosidae (Teleosti: Perciformes). Also known as the ‘blue striped chub’, it lives in habitats primarily within the Indo-Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, though many fringe populations have also been identified in the Pacific coastal regions south of the United States of America and Mexico. K. ocyurus is part of the subtropical/tropical in-group defined as Kyphosidae sensu and is the sister species of K. vaigiensis. It can...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 615596.