Biology

Chapouto

Madeiran fishermen give this name to an extremely rare fish. It is a species of the Escombrida family, which in Porto Santo and the Algarve is called merma. In Portugal, the name chaputa is given to Brama raii and Centrophorus lusitanicus.

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Algarve
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Porto Santo
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