Southern sandfish

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Southern sandfishes
Leptoscopus macropygus (Estuary stargazer).gif
Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus
Scientific classification e
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.Plio.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleoceneLeptoscopusQuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.Plio.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleocene

References[]

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