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Beaked Salmons
Gonorynchus
Gonorynchus is a genus of long thin gonorynchiform ray-finned fish, commonly called beaked salmon or beaked sandfish that live on sandy bottoms near shorelines. There are five known extant species which are placed in this genus. All have a distinctive angular snout (hence the name) that the fish use to dig themselves into the sand.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species
Beaked Salmon
speciesGonorynchus greyi
Forster's Sandfish
speciesGonorynchus forsteri
Beaked Sandfish
speciesGonorynchus gonorynchus
Gonorynchus abbreviatus
speciesGonorynchus abbreviatus
Gonorynchus moseleyi
speciesGonorynchus moseleyi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 88582.