Estuary stargazer
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The estuary stargazer, Leptoscopus macropygus, is a southern sandfish
Southern sandfish
The southern sandfishes are a family, Leptoscopidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes.-Genera and species:* Genus Crapatalus Günther, 1861** Slender stargazer, Crapatalus angusticeps...

  of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Leptoscopidae, the only member of the genus Leptoscopus. It is found around New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, at depths of between a few metres and 60 m. Its length is about 20 cm.
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