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Sandpaper fish
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Trachichthyiformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Paratrachichthys
Species:
P. trailli
Binomial name
Paratrachichthys trailli
(F. W. Hutton, 1875)

Paratrachichthys trailli, commonly known as the sandpaper fish, is a slimehead belonging to the family Trachichthyidae, found in New Zealand and possibly Australia at depths of between 20 and 500 metres (66 and 1,640 ft). It can reach lengths of up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in).[1]

References

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  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Paratrachichthys trailli". FishBase. December 2016 version.