Southern sandfish
| Southern sandfishes | |
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| Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Trachinoidei |
| 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]
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References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Leptoscopidae" in FishBase. December 2013 version.
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