Trichodontidae
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The Trichodontidae, or sandfishes are a small perciform
Perciformes
The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...

 family of fishes that occur in the North Pacific. The family consists of two monotypic genera:
  • Arctoscopus Jordan and Evermann, 1896
    • Arctoscopus japonicus (Steindachner, 1881) (Japanese Sandfish)
  • Trichodon Tilesius, 1813
    • Trichodon trichodon (Tilesius, 1813) (Pacific Sandfish)
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