Foxfish

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Foxfish
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Bodianus
Species: B. frenchii
Binomial name
Bodianus frenchii
(Klunzinger, 1880)

The foxfish, Bodianus frenchii, is a wrasse of the genus Bodianus, found in south western Western Australia to east South Australia, and from southern Queensland to eastern Tasmania, at depths of between 10 and 40 metres. Its length is up to 45 cm.

[edit] References