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Cape Verde Needlefish
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Cape Verde Needlefish

Platybelone lovii

Platybelone lovii is a species of needlefish from the family Belonidae. It is a predatory, pelagic fisjh which is endemic to the eastern Atlantic Ocean in the waters around Cape Verde. This species was described by Albert Günther in 1866 as Belone lovii and as named in honour of the British naturalist Richard Thomas Lowe (1802-1874).

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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 609281.