Foxfish | |
---|---|
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.