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Sandperches
Pinguipedidae
The sandperches are a family, Pinguipedidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. Sandperches typically live on sand or rubble substrates in shallow seas. The anterior end of the fish is cylindrical and the posterior end partially flattened. The eyes are on the top of the head and the fish lie on the seabed, propped up by their widely separated pelvic fins. Several members of the large genus Parapercis, perhaps all, are sequential hermaphrodites, starting their adult...
7 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 101 known species
Parapercis
genusParapercis
South American Sandperch
genusPinguipes
Pseudopercis
genusPseudopercis
Prolatilus
genusProlatilus
Simipercis
genusSimipercis
Ryukyupercis
genusRyukyupercis
Kochichthys
genusKochichthys
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49423.