Bluefinned butterfish

Bluefinned butterfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Odacidae
Genus:	Odax
Species:	O. cyanoallix
Binomial name
Odax cyanoallix Ayling & Paxton, 1983

The bluefinned butterfish, Odax cyanoallix, a cale of the genus Odax, is found only around Three Kings Islands which is about 80 kilometres north of New Zealand, in shallow reef areas where there is abundant brown seaweed. Its length is between 20 and 35 cm.

References

• "Odax cyanoallix". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=614999. Retrieved 18 April 2006. 
• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Odax cyanoallix" in FishBase. March 2006 version.
• Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8