''Parmops echinatus'' is a species of
flashlight fish found in the western
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...
.
It was first described in 2001 from two specimens caught off the coast of
Fiji
Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
at depths of and .
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Anomalopidae
Taxa named by Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt
Taxa named by Johnson Seeto
Taxa named by G. David Johnson
Fish described in 2001
Fish of the Pacific Ocean
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