''Leptobrama'' is a

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fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...

in the

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Leptobramidae found in the

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. This genus is the only member of its

Species

There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Leptobrama muelleri ''Leptobrama muelleri'', also known as the Spot-fin beachsalmon is a species of perciform fish, primarily coastal marine or brackish water, fish found in tropical coastal waters of the Western Pacific off southern New Guinea, Queensland and Wes ...

'' Steindachner, 1878 (Spot-fin beachsalmon) * '' Leptobrama pectoralis'' ( E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1887) (Long-fin beachsalmon) Kimura, S., Peristiwady, T. & Fricke, R. (2016): Taxonomic review of the genus ''Leptobrama'' Steindachner 1878 (Perciformes: Leptobramidae), with the resurrection of ''Leptobrama pectoralis'' (Ramsay and Ogilby 1887). ''Ichthyological Research'' 63 (4): 435-444.

References

Percoidea Marine fish genera Monotypic ray-finned fish genera Perciformes genera Taxa named by Franz Steindachner {{Percoidea-stub