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Daisy pearlside

Maurolicus muelleri

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) muccioni, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 236, February 174, March 273, April 429, May 618, June 674, July 722, August 621, September 456, October 340, November 186, December 145.
United States5,227
Alaska4,873
Maine222
Canada92
Nova Scotia55
North Carolina39
Texas36
Massachusetts18
New Brunswick17
Quebec15

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderDragonfishes and Allies · Stomiiformes
FamilyMarine Hatchetfishes · Sternoptychidae
GenusMaurolicus

Sources

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