Spicara alta (Osorio, 1917)
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Spicara alta (Osorio, 1917) |
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Spicara alta (Osorio, 1917) View in CoL
Irvine name. Spicara sp.
Reference material. Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 265)— BMNH 1938.12 .15.13 (one: 113.5 mm SL) .
Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to southern Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).
Irvine thought that this fish might eventually prove to represent a species new to science, but it appears to be a species described from Morocco by the Portuguese ichthyologist Balthazar Osorio in 1917.
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