Biology:St. Paul's fingerfin
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Short description: Species of fish
| St Paul's fingerfin | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | [[Biology:|Cheilodactylidae]] |
| Genus: | Nemadactylus |
| Species: | N. monodactylus
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| Binomial name | |
| Nemadactylus monodactylus (Carmichael, 1819)
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St. Paul's fingerfin, Nemadactylus monodactylus, is a species of morwong native to the waters around Île Saint-Paul and Île Amsterdam in the Indian Ocean. It has also been reported from Tristan da Cunha, Vima Mount on the west coast of South Africa , and off Australia and New Zealand.
This species reaches a size of approximately 60 cm, and is benthopelagic, feeding on both bottom-dwelling and open-water organisms. Like other species of morwongs, it is occasionally harvested by commercial fisheries, but the effects of this on the overall species population have been relatively little studied.
References
- "Nemadactylus monodactylus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=645815. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Nemadactylus monodactylus" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q2197445 entry
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