''Crystallodytes'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
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
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, 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 ...
.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Crystallodytes cookei''
Fowler, 1923 (Cooke's Sandburrower)
* ''
Crystallodytes enderburyensis''
Schultz, 1943 (South Pacific sandburrower)
* ''
Crystallodytes pauciradiatus''
J. S. Nelson
J, or j, is the tenth letter of the English alphabet.
J may also refer to:
* Palatal approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet
* J, Cyrillic letter Je
Astronomy
* J, a provisional designation prefix for some objects discovered bet ...
& J. E. Randall, 1985 (Rapanui sandburrower)
References
Creediidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler
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