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High-finned dragonet

The high-finned dragonet is a species of dragonet native to the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of northwestern Australia as well as New Caledonia, where it favors substrates consisting of sand or rubble and reaches a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL.

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High-finned dragonet
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Callionymidae
Genus: Synchiropus
Species:
S. rameus
Binomial name
Synchiropus rameus
(McCulloch, 1926)1
Synonyms

Callionymus rameus McCulloch, 1926
Orbonymus rameus (McCulloch, 1926)

The high-finned dragonet (Synchiropus rameus) is a species of dragonet native to the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of northwestern Australia as well as New Caledonia, where it favors substrates consisting of sand or rubble and reaches a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL.2

References

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Synchiropus rameus". FishBase. February 2018 version.
  2. Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. (2013): An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa, 3696 (1): 1-293.