Southern sandfish

Short description: Family of fishes

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]

* Crapatalus
* Leptoscopus
* Lesueurina

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

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Leptoscopidae" in FishBase. December 2013 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q2062623 entry

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