Fleshfish
Appearance
Fleshfish | |
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Ophidiiformes |
Family: | Bythitidae |
Genus: | Dermatopsis |
Species: | D. macrodon
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Binomial name | |
Dermatopsis macrodon J. D. Ogilby, 1896
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The fleshfish (Dermatopsis macrodon), also known as the eastern yellow blindfish, is a species of viviparous brotula found in reefs of southern Australia and around New Zealand. This species grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.
References
[edit]- "Dermatopsis macrodon". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 19 March 2006.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Dermatopsis macrodon". FishBase. June 2012 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8