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Drepane

Specimen image via iDigBio · BY

EntityQ5248154· pop 29· linked from 17 articles

genus of fishes

Species

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. 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.