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Drepane (fish)

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Kingdom
  
Scientific name
  
Drepane

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Rank
  
Genus

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Family
  
DrepaneidaeT. N. Gill, 1872

Similar
  
Drepane punctata, Drepane longimana, Drepaneidae, Deepwater cardinalfish, Ephippidae

Drepane is a genus of fishes known commonly as the sicklefishes. It is the only genus in the perciform fish family Drepaneidae. 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:

  • Drepane africana Osório, 1892 – African sicklefish
  • Drepane longimana (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) – concertina fish
  • Drepane punctata Linnaeus, 1758 – spotted sicklefish
  • References

    Drepane (fish) Wikipedia