Southern sandfishes | |
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Estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Suborder: | Trachinoidei |
Family: |
Leptoscopidae T. N. Gill, 1859 |
Genera | |
The southern sandfishes are a family, Leptoscopidae, of perciform fishes inhabiting the Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters of Australia and New Zealand.