Rotuma lewisi
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Lewis’s Wriggler, Rotuma lewisi, is a species of fish in the Xenisthmidae
family. Rotuma is a monotypic
genus.
Xenisthmidae
Collared Wrigglers are perciform fishes in the family Xenisthmidae. They are native to the Indian and Pacific oceans, where they are mostly reef-dwelling...
family. Rotuma is a monotypic
Monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group with only one biological type. The term's usage differs slightly between botany and zoology. The term monotypic has a separate use in conservation biology, monotypic habitat, regarding species habitat conversion eliminating biodiversity and...
genus.