Nannygai
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Nannygai is the name of various fish
from the Australian region:
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
from the Australian region:
- In family LutjanidaeLutjanidaeSnappers are a family of perciform fish, mainly marine but with some members inhabiting estuaries, feeding in freshwater. Some are important food fish. One of the best known is the red snapper....
:- Malabar blood snapper, Lutjanus malabaricus.
- Crimson snapper, Lutjanus erythropterus.
- In family BerycidaeBerycidaeThe Berycidae is a small family of deep sea fishes, related to the squirrelfishes. The family includes the alfonsinos and the nannygais.Berycids are found in both temperate and tropical waters around the world, between in depth, though mainly greater than . They are typically red in colour, and...
:- Eastern nannygaiEastern nannygaiThe eastern nannygai, redfish, bight redfish, red snapper, golden snapper or koarea, Centroberyx affinis, is an alfonsino of the genus Centroberyx, found around Australia and New Zealand at depths up to 400 metres...
, Centroberyx affinis. - Yelloweye nannygai, Centroberyx australis.
- Eastern nannygai
- Family Glaucosomatidae:
- Pearl perch, Glaucosoma scapulare.