The long-finned pike or yellowfin pike (Dinolestes lewini) is a species of acropomatiform ray-finned fish, the only species in the genus Dinolestes, as well as the family Dinolestidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acropomatiformes |
| Family: | Dinolestidae T. D. Scott, 1962 [2] |
| Genus: | Dinolestes Klunzinger, 1872 [1] |
| Species: | D. lewini
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| Dinolestes lewini (E. Griffith & C. H. Smith, 1834)
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It is an elongated fish with a pointed snout, and silver in color, similar in appearance to a barracuda, and grows up to 84 cm (33 in) in total length. It is endemic to the coastal waters of southern Australia, including New South Wales, at depths between 5 and 65 m (16 and 213 ft).[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Dinolestidae". FishBase. January 2006 version.
- "Dinolestes lewini". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 March 2006.
- "Long-finned Pike". Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 17 November 2005. Retrieved 28 March 2006.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Dinolestes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Dinolestes lewini". FishBase. April 2013 version.