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.[1] It is found in southern Australia from the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria to the Great Australian Bight in South Australia and south to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania.[2] It occurs in shallow water over pale coloured sand,[1] where it buries itself in the substrate.[3] The specific name honours the Australian ichthyologist Ian Stafford Ross Munro who discovered the species.[3]

Crapatalus munroi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachiniformes
Family: Leptoscopidae
Genus: Crapatalus
Species:
C. munroi
Binomial name
Crapatalus munroi
Last & Edgar, 1987

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Crapatalus munroi" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
  2. Dianne J. Bray. "Crapatalus munroi". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 17 Jun 2018.
  3. P.R. Last; G.J. Edgar (1987). "New Australian fishes. Part 16. A new species of Crapatalus (Leptoscopidae)". Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria. 48 (1): 73–74.
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