Drepane africana Osorio, 1892

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2248

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scientific name

Drepane africana Osorio, 1892
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Irvine name. Drepane punctata (Linnaeus) . Misidentification.

Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 49)— BMNH 1930.8.26.61–62 (two: 68.6, 84.1 mm SL) .

Distribution. West African coast between about Cape Verde and Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).

On average about 1300 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year ( FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Drepaneidae

Genus

Drepane

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