''Creedia'' is a

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sandburrower The sandburrowers or simply burrowers are a family, Creediidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. They are native to coastal waters the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are very small fishes; with the exception of the larger Donaldson's sandbur ...

s native to the

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and western Pacific oceans.

Species

There are currently four recognized

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in this genus: * ''

Creedia alleni ''Creedia alleni'' is a species of sandburrowers found in the Eastern Indian Ocean in Australia. This species reaches a length of . Etymology The sandburrower is named in honor of Gerald R. Allen (b. 1942), of the Western Australia Museum in Pe ...

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, 1983 * '' Creedia bilineata'' Shimada &

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, 1987 * '' Creedia haswelli'' ( E. P. Ramsay, 1881) (Slender sand-diver) * '' Creedia partimsquamigera''

, 1983 (Half-scaled sand-diver)

References

Creediidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by James Douglas Ogilby {{Perciformes-stub