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Vaillant's Smoothhead
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Vaillant's Smoothhead

Leptochilichthys pinguis

Vaillant's smooth-head (Leptochilichthys pinguis) is a species of deepwater marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alepocephalidae, the smooth-heads. This species is found in the Atlantic Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 529360.