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Taractes
Sign in to saveTaractes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes from the family Bramidae, the pomfrets. Taractes can be distinguished from other bramid genera but having a flat, or slightly curved profile, between the eyes (unlike the definitive arched profile present in the other genera) and by having scales on both the dorsal and anal fins (unlike Pterycombus and Pteraclis which lack these scales).
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It is catalogued under the topic Bramidae.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyBramidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- Family
- Bramidae
- Collections
- CAS, UMMZ, USNM, LACM, ROM, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Bermuda, Indonesia
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Taractes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes from the family Bramidae, the pomfrets. Taractes can be distinguished from other bramid genera but having a flat, or slightly curved profile, between the eyes (unlike the definitive arched profile present in the other genera) and by having scales on both the dorsal and anal fins (unlike Pterycombus and Pteraclis which lack these scales).
==Species== There are currently two recognized species in this genus: Taractes asper R. T. Lowe, 1843 (Rough pomfret) Taractes rubescens (D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1887) (Pomfret)
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