Biology:Long-finned pike
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Short description: Species of fish
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Dinolestidae T. D. Scott, 1962 [2] |
| Genus: | Dinolestes Klunzinger, 1872 [1] |
| Species: | D. lewini
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| Dinolestes lewini (E. Griffith & C. H. Smith, 1834)
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The long-finned pike or yellowfin pike (Dinolestes lewini) is a species of perciform fish, the only species in the genus Dinolestes, as well as the family Dinolestidae.
It is an elongated fish with a pointed snout, and silver in color, similar in appearance to a barracuda, and grows up to 84 cm (33 in) in total length. It is endemic to the coastal waters of southern Australia , including New South Wales, at depths between 5 and 65 m (16 and 213 ft).[3]
See also
References
- "Dinolestes lewini". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=645670. Retrieved 27 March 2006.
- "Long-finned Pike". Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 17 November 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20051117002706/http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/dlewini.htm. Retrieved 28 March 2006.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Dinolestes". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=3641.
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001–230. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Dinolestes lewini" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q1317467 entry
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