Bajacalifornia
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For other uses of "Baja California", see Baja California (disambiguation).
Bajacalifornia is a genus of slickheads. It was described in 1925 by Charles Haskins Townsend and John Treadwell Nichols on the basis of Bajacalifornia burragei[1] which was discovered in 1911 during the deep sea expedition of the research vessel USS Albatross off the coast of Todos Santos Bay at the Baja California peninsula.[1] In 1952 Ichthyologist Albert Eide Parr published a revision of this genus.[2]
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Bajacalifornia megalops | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Alepocephaliformes |
Family: | Alepocephalidae |
Genus: | Bajacalifornia C. H. Townsend & Nichols, 1925 |
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