Schuettea
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| Schuettea | |
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| Woodward's pomfret, Schuettea woodwardi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acropomatiformes |
| Genus: | Schuettea Steindachner, 1866 |
| Type species | |
| Schuettea scalaripinnis Steindachner, 1866[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Schuettea is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes native to Australia.[2] They are commonly referred to as "pomfrets" but are not closely related to true pomfrets of the Bramidae.[3]
Their taxonomic status is currently uncertain; they were formerly placed as the only other extant genus of the family Monodactylidae,[2] but more recent phylogenetic studies suggests they belong to the order Acropomatiformes as an incertae sedis member. They are not yet assigned to a family.[3][4]
