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Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters".
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is endemic to the subtropical southeastern
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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being dominant. The most common fish was the herbivorous
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596:"Genera in the family Latridae"
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759:Cheilodactylus variegatus
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538:Cheilodactylus variegatus
443:show abundant remains of
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196:Chirodactylus variegatus
148:Chirodactylus variegatus
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372:on the coast of Chile.
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398:Aplodactylus punctatus
383:, with the sea urchin
271:Cheilodactylus antonii
261:Theodore Nicholas Gill
182:Cheilodactylus antonii
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488:Eschmeyer, William N.
456:Semicossyphus darwini
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303:Fishes of the World
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389:and the gastropod
185:Valenciennes, 1833
177:Valenciennes, 1833
130:C. variegatus
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751:Taxon identifiers
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674:978-1-118-34233-6
601:Catalog of Fishes
577:978-92-3-100020-1
501:Catalog of Fishes
415:Sebastes capensis
403:Chilean sandperch
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381:crustaceans
343:in Peru to
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237:in 1833 as
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922:Categories
685:2021-08-04
467:References
347:in Chile.
345:Talcahuano
326:caudal fin
254:Valparaíso
252:given as
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243:zoologist
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299:Latridae
226:Taxonomy
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