Venefica tentaculata, an eastern and central Pacific species with a moderately long extension on the snout. This is the species of Venefica that has been reported closest to the Hawaiian Islands.
Central Pacific Species
Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and the Galapagos Islands... by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891: the fishes. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, number 24. Download image (jpg, 328 KB).

Venefica tentaculata, an eastern and central Pacific species with a moderately long extension on the snout. This is the species of Venefica that has been reported closest to the Hawaiian Islands.

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