Drepane (fish)
| Drepane | |
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| Spotted sicklefish (D. punctata) | |
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| Family: | Drepaneidae T. N. Gill, 1872
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| Genus: | Drepane G. Cuvier, 1831
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| Chaetodon punctatus | |
Drepane is a genus of fishes known commonly as the sicklefishes.[1] It is the only genus in the perciform fish family Drepaneidae.[1] These fish occur in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in the eastern Atlantic near Africa.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- Drepane africana Osório, 1892 – African sicklefish
- Drepane longimana (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) – concertina fish
- Drepane punctata (Linnaeus, 1758) – spotted sicklefish
See also
References
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Drepaneidae" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Drepane in FishBase. April 2013 version.