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Malakichthys
Sign in to saveMalakichthys is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Malakichthyidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
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Vinony's link graph records 9 inbound references to Malakichthys, and connects out to Actinopterygii, Animalia and Pacific Ocean.
It is catalogued under topics including Malakichthys and Taxa named by Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyAcropomatidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Acropomatidae
- Collections
- USNM, NMV, UMMZ, WAM, QM, LACM
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Australia, Mozambique, Japan, Vanuatu, Philippines, Salomon(I.)
Wikidata facts
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- Image
- Malakichthys mochizuki.jpg
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- Malakichthys
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- Category:Malakichthys
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- Malakichthys
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Encyclopedic overview
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Malakichthys is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Malakichthyidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Fish of this genus are characterized by their small villiform teeth, 3 anal fin spines, 10 dorsal fin spines, and anus located near the anal fin origin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malakichthys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.