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Protoblepharon

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Protoblepharon
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachichthyiformes
Family: Anomalopidae
Genus: Protoblepharon
C. C. Baldwin, G. D. Johnson & Paxton, 1997

Protoblepharon is a genus of flashlight fishes known from the Pacific Ocean from around the Cook Islands (P. rosenblatti) and off of eastern Taiwan (P. mccoskeri).

Species

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There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Protoblepharon". FishBase. October 2012 version.
  2. ^ a b Ho, H.-C. & Johnson, D. (2012): Protoblepharon mccoskeri, a new flashlight fish from eastern Taiwan (Teleostei: Anomalopidae). Zootaxa, 3479: 77–87.