| Sandpaper fish | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Trachichthyiformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Genus: | Paratrachichthys |
| Species: | P. trailli |
| Binomial name | |
| Paratrachichthys trailli (F. W. Hutton, 1875) | |
Paratrachichthys trailli, the sandpaper fish, is a slimehead belonging to the family Trachichthyidae, found in New Zealand and possibly Australia at depths of between 20 and 500 metres (66 and 1,640 ft). It can reach lengths of up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in).[1]
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Paratrachichthys trailli" in FishBase. December 2016 version.
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