Long-finned pike
Species of ray-finned fish
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The long-finned pike or yellowfin pike (Dinolestes lewini) is a species of acropomatiform ray-finned fish, the only species in the genus Dinolestes, as well as the family Dinolestidae.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acropomatiformes |
| Family: | Dinolestidae T. D. Scott, 1962[1] |
| Genus: | Dinolestes Klunzinger, 1872[2] |
| Species: | D. lewini |
| Binomial name | |
| Dinolestes lewini (E. Griffith & C. H. Smith, 1834) | |
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It is an elongated fish with a pointed snout, and silver in color, similar in appearance to a barracuda, and grows up to 84 cm (33 in) in total length. It is endemic to the coastal waters of southern Australia, including New South Wales, at depths between 5 and 65 m (16 and 213 ft).[3]
