Galapagos Species Database
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Peristedion barbiger
Pez cocodrilo
Reaches 15.5 cm. Habitat: on soft bottoms. Depth 50-295 m.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Perciformes
Family
Peristediidae
Genus
Peristedion
Species
barbiger
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Peristedium barbiger Garman, 1899(Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Vagrant
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Peristedion barbiger", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24749. Accessed 5 November 2026.