Biology:Southern sandfish

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Short description: Family of fishes

Southern sandfishes
Leptoscopus macropygus (Estuary stargazer).gif
Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Acanthopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Order: Trachiniformes
Family: Leptoscopidae
T. N. Gill, 1859
Genera[1]

The southern sandfishes are a family, Leptoscopidae, of perciform fishes inhabiting the Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters of Australia and New Zealand.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Leptoscopidae" in FishBase. December 2013 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q2062623 entry