Drepane (fish)

Drepane
Spotted sicklefish (D. punctata)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Drepaneidae
T. N. Gill, 1872[1]
Genus: Drepane
G. Cuvier, 1831
Type species
Chaetodon punctatus

Drepane is a genus of marine and brackish water ray-finned fishes, known commonly as the sicklefishes.[2] It is the only genus in the monotypic percomorph family Drepaneidae.[2] These fish occur in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in the eastern Atlantic near Africa.

  1. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Drepaneidae". FishBase. February 2023 version.