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Species Name:    Lachnolaimus maximus
Common Name:                        (Hogfish)

 

I.  TAXONOMY

Kingdom Phylum/Division: Class: Order: Family: Genus:
Animalia Chordata Osteichthyes Perciformes Labridae Lachnolaimus


The Hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus.  Illustration by Diana Rome Peebles 1998.  Courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Division of Marine Fisheries. 		Species Name:
Lachnolaimus maximus (Walbaum, 1792)
Common Name:
Hogfish