Eurypleuron
Eurypleuron is a monotypic genus of pearlfishes, family Carapidae. It contains only Eurypleuron owasianum, the eel pearlfish, which is a moderately sized fish reaching 22–24 cm (8.7–9.4 in) total length, found in the Southern Indian and Pacific Oceans.
The Catalog of Fishes considers Eurypleuron cinereum a synonym of Eurypleuron owasianum, rendering the genus monotypic.
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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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 88316.