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Photolateralis
Genus of fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Photolateralis is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae. This genus is unique among ponyfishes in possessing a translucent mid-lateral flank stripe which, depending on the species, may be either a composite stripe of numerous independent translucent windows or a continuous translucent lateral stripe.[1]
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Photolateralis | |
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illustration of Photolateralis stercorarius | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Leiognathidae |
Genus: | Photolateralis Sparks & Chakrabarty, 2015 [1] |
Type species | |
Leiognathus stercorarius Evermann & Seale, 1907[2] |
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