African butterfly fish

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Representative osteoglossomorphic fishes.

African butterfly fish

fish

Also known as: Pantodon buchholzi

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osteoglossomorph
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…the arowana [Scleropages], and the butterfly fish [Pantodon]) in Africa, South America, and Australasia (believed by many authorities to have once been joined as a single landmass called Gondwana) is of particular zoogeographical interest.
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…the arowana [Scleropages], and the butterfly fish [Pantodon]) in Africa, South America, and Australasia (believed by many authorities to have once been joined as a single landmass called Gondwana) is of particular zoogeographical interest.
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