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Agonostomus monticola

Agonostomus monticola
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Juvenile Agonostomus monticola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Mugiliformes
Family: Mugilidae
Genus: Agonostomus
Species: A. monticola
Binomial name
Agonostomus monticola
(Bancroft, 1834)
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Agonostomus monticola (Spanish vernacular: dajao, trucha de tierra caliente; English vernacular: mountain mullet) is a freshwater fish of the Mugilidae family in the Mugiliformes order. It can be found in North and South America, from North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Texas in the United States to Colombia and Venezuela, including the West Indies in the Antilles. It is common in the Toro Negro State Forest in central Puerto Rico.



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