High-finned dragonet

High-finned dragonet
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Callionymiformes
Family:	Callionymidae
Genus:	Synchiropus
Species:	S. rameus
Binomial name
	Synchiropus rameus; (McCulloch, 1926)[1]
Synonyms
	Callionymus rameus McCulloch, 1926; Orbonymus rameus (McCulloch, 1926)

The high-finned dragonet (Synchiropus rameus) is a species of dragonet native to the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of northwestern Australia as well as New Caledonia, where it favors substrates consisting of sand or rubble and reaches a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL.[2]

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Synchiropus rameus" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. (2013): An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa, 3696 (1): 1-293.

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[FishBase-1] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Synchiropus rameus" in FishBase. February 2018 version.

[Larson-2] Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. (2013): An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa, 3696 (1): 1-293.