Triglidae

Triglidae
Temporal range: Eocene–recent, 48.6–0 Ma
Spiny red gurnard, Chelidonichthys spinosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Suborder: Platycephaloidei
Family: Triglidae
Rafinesque, 1815[1]
Subfamilies

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A Spiny red gurnard swimming and also using its "foreleg" spines

Triglidae, commonly known as gurnards or sea robins, are a family of bottom-feeding scorpaeniform ray-finned fish. The gurnards are distributed in temperate and tropical seas worldwide.

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