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Little pineapple fish

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Beryciformes

Scientific name
  
Sorosichthys ananassa

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Trachichthyidae

Higher classification
  
Sorosichthys

Genus
  
Sorosichthys Whitley, 1945

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The little pineapple fish, Sorosichthys ananassa, is a small slimehead of the family Trachichthyidae, the only member of the genus Sorosichthys, found in the eastern Indian Ocean, on the continental shelf of the southwestern coasts of Western Australia and South Australia, at depths between 50 and 70 m (160 and 230 ft). Its length is up to about 8 cm (3.1 in).

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Little pineapple fish Wikipedia