Southern sandfish
Family of ray-finned fishes
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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]
| Southern sandfishes | |
|---|---|
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| Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Eupercaria |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Suborder: | Uranoscopoidei |
| Family: | Leptoscopidae T. N. Gill, 1859 |
| Genera[1] | |
