Southern sandfish

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Southern sandfishes
Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Order: Labriformes
Suborder: Uranoscopoidei
Family: Leptoscopidae
T. N. Gill, 1859
Genera[1]

The southern sandfishes are a family, Leptoscopidae, of labriform ray-finned fishes inhabiting the Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters of Australia and New Zealand.[1]

References

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