Hemerocoetes pauciradiatus

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Hemerocoetes pauciradiatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Percophidae
Subfamily: Hemerocoetinae
Genus: Hemerocoetes
Species: H. pauciradiatus
Binomial name
Hemerocoetes pauciradiatus
Regan, 1914

Hemerocoetes pauciradiatus is a duckbill fish of the genus Hemerocoetes, found only around the south east of the South Island of New Zealand, and around the Chatham Islands, on the continental shelf at depths of between 20 and 200 m. Their length is between 10 and 25 cm.

Hemerocoetes pauciradiatus is very similar to the closely related opalfish.

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