Bartail jawfish

Bartail jawfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Perciformes
Family:Opistognathidae
Genus:Opistognathus
Species: O. cuvierii
Binomial name
Opistognathus cuvierii
Synonyms
  • Gnathypops cuvieri (Valenciennes, 1836) (Note - Specific epithet misspelled)

The bartail jawfish (Opistognathus cuvierii) is a species of jawfish known only from reefs in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of southern Brazil. This species can reach a length of 11.4 centimetres (4.5 in) SL.[1]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Opistognathus cuvierii" in FishBase. February 2014 version.


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