Southern sandfishes | |
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Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus | |
Scientific 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]