Longfin
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The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, which were formerly placed in the order Perciformes but are now regarded as being incertae sedis in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade Percomorpha.[2] They are elongated fishes, found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
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Longfin | |
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Crimsontip longfin, (Plesiops coeruleolineatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Superorder: | Acanthopterygii |
Clade: | Percomorpha |
(unranked): | Ovalentaria |
Family: | Plesiopidae Günther, 1861[1] |
Subfamilies | |
See text for genera. | |
Synonyms | |
Acanthoclinidae |
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