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First finding of giant fathead (Cubiceps paradoxus, Nomeidae) in the Atlantic Ocean (coast of Mauritania)

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Original Russian Text © E.I. Kukuev, S.Yu. Gulyugin, 2015, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2015, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 216–220.

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Kukuev, E.I., Gulyugin, S.Y. First finding of giant fathead (Cubiceps paradoxus, Nomeidae) in the Atlantic Ocean (coast of Mauritania). J. Ichthyol. 55, 273–277 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945215020113

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