The sandburrowers or simply burrowers are a family, Creediidae, of fishes in the order
Perciformes.
They are native to coastal waters the
Indian and
Pacific Ocean
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 definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
s. They are very small fishes; with the exception of the larger
Donaldson's sandburrower, ''Limnichthys donaldsoni'', most species reach only 3 to 7 cm in length. They live in shallow waters close to the shore, burrowing into sandy areas swept by currents or by surf.
See also
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List of fish families
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list.
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References
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Trachiniformes