Estuary stargazer
Appearance
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Estuary stargazer | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Trachiniformes |
Family: | Leptoscopidae |
Genus: | Leptoscopus T. N. Gill, 1859 |
Species: | L. macropygus
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Binomial name | |
Leptoscopus macropygus (J. Richardson, 1846)
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Leptoscopus macropygus, the estuary stargazer, is a species of southern sandfish endemic to the Pacific waters around New Zealand.[1] It occurs at depths between a few and 60 m. This species can reach a length of 17 centimetres (6.7 in) FL.[1] It is currently the only known member of its genus.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Leptoscopus macropygus" in FishBase. December 2013 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