Drepane (fish)
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Drepane is a genus of marine and brackish water ray-finned fishes, known commonly as the sicklefishes.[2] It is the only genus in the monotypic percomorph family Drepaneidae.[2] These fish occur in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in the eastern Atlantic near Africa.
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Drepane | |
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Spotted sicklefish (D. punctata) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Moroniformes |
Family: | Drepaneidae T. N. Gill, 1872[1] |
Genus: | Drepane G. Cuvier, 1831 |
Type species | |
Chaetodon punctatus |
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