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Sandpaper Fish
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Sandpaper Fish

Paratrachichthys macleayi

Paratrachichthys macleayi, also known as the Australian sandpaper fish, is a slimehead belonging to the family Trachichthyidae. It is endemic to southeastern Australia and can be found in small schools in open rocky reefs from depths of 15m to 400m.

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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 531053.