Trichodontidae
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| Arctoscopus japonicus (Japanese sandfish) | |
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The Trichodontidae, or sandfishes, are a small perciform family of fishes that occur in the North Pacific. The family consists of two monotypic genera:
- Arctoscopus Jordan and Evermann, 1896
- Arctoscopus japonicus (Steindachner, 1881) (Japanese sandfish)
- Trichodon Tilesius, 1813
- Trichodon trichodon (Tilesius, 1813) (Pacific sandfish)
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Trichodontidae" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
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