| Elongate dory | |
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| Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Zeiformes |
| Family: | Zenionidae |
| Genus: | Zenion Jordan & Evermann, 1896 |
| Species: | Z. leptolepis |
| Binomial name | |
| Zenion leptolepis (Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924) |
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The elongate dory, Zenion leptolepis, is a dory, in the genus Zenion, found around South Africa, southern Australia, and New Zealand at depths of between 350 and 700 m. Its length is between 10 and 16 cm.