Leaf Fish (other)
Leaf fish or Leaffish may refer to: * Nandidae, African and Asian leaffishes * Polycentridae, South American leaffishes * Pristolepididae, Asian leaffishes * ''Taenianotus triacanthus'', the "leaf scorpionfish", a species of marine fish of the family Scorpaenidae {{disambiguation, fish ...
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Nandidae
Nandidae, the leaffish, are a family of small freshwater fishes which some authorities classify in the order Anabantiformes, but which the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies the family and the related Badidae and Pristolepididae outside that order as "sister-taxa". Fishes of the World classified these families and the Anabantiformes alongside Synbranchiformes, Carangiformes, Istiophoriformes and Pleuronectiformes in a monophyletic clade which is a sister taxon to the Ovalentaria but to which the authors do not assign a rank or a name. According to FishBase, the family includes three genera: ''Nandus'' of South and Southeast Asia with several species, and the monotypic ''Afronandus'' and ''Polycentropsis'' of tropical West and Middle Africa. Most recent authorities place the two African genera in the South American leaffish family, Polycentridae, which is only distantly related to ''Nandus'' (the "true" Nandidae).Collins, R.A., R. Britz, and L. Ruber (2015). ...
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