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Vesposus_egregius
Vesposus egregius
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- Synonym of Grammicolepis brachiusculus
- 1921 October 14th, David Starr Jordan, “Description of deep-sea fishes from the coast of Hawaii, killed by a lava flow from Mauna Loa” in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume LIX (1922), № 2392, page 649:
- Closely allied to Grammicolepis Poey, with the same peculiar type of scales, but distinguished by the well-developed ventral fins and by the much stronger armed bucklers along bases of dorsal and anal fins. [¶] Type of the genus. — Vesposus egregius, new species.
- 1921 October 14th, David Starr Jordan, “Description of deep-sea fishes from the coast of Hawaii, killed by a lava flow from Mauna Loa” in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume LIX (1922), № 2392, page 649: