''Samaretta perexilis'' is a

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fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the

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Samaridae Samaridae (''Samariscus corallines'') is a family of crested flounders, small flatfishes native to the Indo-Pacific. The family contains four genera with a total of 29 species. Taxonomy Samaridae is one of eight families a part of the SuperFa ...

found from deep-waters from submarine mountains of the southern eastern Pacific. This species is the only member of its

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.Voronina, E.P. & Suzumoto, A.Y. (2017)
''Samaretta perexilis'', a New Genus and New Species of Samarid Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes: Samaridae) from the South Pacific.
''Journal of Ichthyology, 57 (1): 1–9.''

References

Marine fish genera Monotypic fish genera Samaridae Fish described in 2017 {{Pleuronectiformes-stub