Parona leatherjacket
Species of ray-finned fish
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The parona leatherjacket (Parona signata) is a species of carangiform ray-finned fish found along the Atlantic coast of South America from southern Brazil to southern Argentina and the Falkland Islands. This species grows to a length of 60 centimetres (24 in) TL and is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries. This species is the only known member of its genus.[2]
| Parona leatherjacket | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Carangoidei |
| Family: | Trachinotidae |
| Subfamily: | Scomberoidinae |
| Genus: | Parona C. Berg, 1895 |
| Species: | P. signata |
| Binomial name | |
| Parona signata (Jenyns, 1841) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Paropsis signata Jenyns, 1841 | |
