Southern sandfish

Southern sandfishes
Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus
Scientific classification
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]

Timeline

QuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleoceneLeptoscopusQuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleocene

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Leptoscopidae" in FishBase. December 2013 version.
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