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Species
スダレダイ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyDrepaneidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded3,921
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 70
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Drepaneidae
- Collections
- USNM, NHMUK, CAS, CMN, AM, TU
- Recorded in
- Myanmar, India, Ivory Coast, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Madagascar, China
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Encyclopedic overview
Drepane is a genus of marine and brackish water ray-finned fishes, known commonly as the sicklefishes. It is the only genus in the monotypic percomorph family Drepaneidae. These fish occur in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in the eastern Atlantic near Africa.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Drepane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.