''Creedia'' is a

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sandburrower The sandburrowers or simply burrowers are a family, Creediidae, of ray-finned fishes in the order Acropomatiformes. They are native to coastal waters the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are very small fishes; with the exception of the larger D ...

s native to the

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and western

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

oceans.

Species

There are currently four recognized

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in this genus: * '' Creedia alleni''

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, 1983 * '' Creedia bilineata'' Shimada & Yoshino, 1987 * '' Creedia haswelli'' ( E. P. Ramsay, 1881) (Slender sand-diver) * '' Creedia partimsquamigera''

, 1983 (Half-scaled sand-diver)

References

Creediidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by James Douglas Ogilby {{Acropomatiformes-stub