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| Aboard the U.S. submarine CHIVO we wonder if you might be able to furnish us some information on the original Chivo, Upeneus grandisquamis which is our ship’s namesake? |
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| Q&A 1. | Aboard the U.S. submarine CHIVO we wonder if you might be able to furnish us some information on the original Chivo, Upeneus grandisquamis which is our ship’s namesake? |
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| The Chivo, Upeneus grandisquamis, was first named by Theodore Gill from a specimen obtained off the coast of Central America. It belongs to the family Mullidae and to the genus Upeneus, which contains all of the small fishes commonly known as the “Goatfishes”. They are small, bottom feeding fishes rather widely distributed in tropical American waters. Although the Chivo itself is a Pacific species, several closely related species are found in the West Indies. The Red Goatfish or Salmonette is caught for food from Key West to the southern border of Brazil; the Yellow Goatfish, Upeneus martinicus, is also valued as a good food fish in the Key West area. The specific name grandisquamis means “large scaled”. |
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