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THE rare oceanic form Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, 1810, has been known with some certainty since the sixteenth century from an account by Rondelet. It has at intervals been reported, mainly as single specimens, from the following localities: Mediterranean (sixteenth century onwards); Madeira (1839); Australia (1882 onwards); North Atlantic (1895); Hawaii (1928); California (1936 onwards); Japan (1939); New Zealand (1948). This fish has therefore been found over a wide range of temperate seas, but not hitherto in the Indian Ocean or in the adjacent Western Pacific.
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SMITH, J. Discovery of Tetragonurus Risso, 1810, in South African Waters. Nature 170, 496 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170496c0
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