''Crapatalus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
southern sandfish
The southern sandfishes are a family, Leptoscopidae, of perciform fishes inhabiting the Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters of Australia and New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacifi ...
es native to the coastal waters of
Australia and
New Zealand
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Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:Crapatalus munroi
''Crapatalus munroi'', the robust pygmy stargazer or Munro's Pygmy-stargazer, is a species of demersal marine bony fish from the family Leptoscopidae. It is found in southern Australia from the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria to the Great Australia ...
'' Last
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& Edgar
Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and '' gar'' "spear").
Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, r ...
, 1987 (Robust pygmy-stargazer)
* '' Crapatalus novaezelandiae'' Günther, 1861
References
Leptoscopidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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