Southern sandfish
Family of fishes
| Southern sandfishes | |
|---|---|
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| Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Superorder: | Acanthopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Order: | Trachiniformes |
| Family: | Leptoscopidae T. N. Gill, 1859 |
| Genera[1] | |
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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
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Leptoscopidae". FishBase. December 2013 version.
