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Pacific Ocean, within the area bounded by 5°S to 37°S, and 81°W to 71°W . Its range extends southwards along the coast of South America, from
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607:"Genera in the family Latridae"
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944:Fish of the Pacific Ocean
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242:Chirodactylus variegatus
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159:Chirodactylus variegatus
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383:on the coast of Chile.
954:Fish described in 1833
503:"Species in the genus
409:Aplodactylus punctatus
394:, with the sea urchin
282:Cheilodactylus antonii
272:Theodore Nicholas Gill
193:Cheilodactylus antonii
603:Eschmeyer, William N.
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467:Semicossyphus darwini
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141:C. variegatus
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762:Taxon identifiers
745:978-0-19-531995-8
685:978-1-118-34233-6
612:Catalog of Fishes
588:978-92-3-100020-1
512:Catalog of Fishes
426:Sebastes capensis
414:Chilean sandperch
403:Tegula tridentata
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392:crustaceans
354:in Peru to
320:Description
248:in 1833 as
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933:Categories
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478:References
358:in Chile.
356:Talcahuano
337:caudal fin
265:Valparaíso
263:given as
259:with the
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73:Kingdom:
67:Eukaryota
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