Longfin

Longfins
Crimsontip longfin,
(Plesiops coeruleolineatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Plesiopidae
Genera

Acanthoclinus
Acanthoplesiops
Assessor
Beliops
Belonepterygion
Calloplesiops
Fraudella
Notograptus
Paraplesiops
Plesiops
Steeneichthys
Trachinops
See text for species.

Synonyms

Acanthoclinidae

The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. They are elongated fishes, found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

Species

Comet, Calloplesiops altivelis
Eastern blue devil, Paraplesiops bleekeri

In some classifications, the genus Notograptus is split in its own family, Notograptidae, but FishBase is followed here:

References

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