Long-finned pike

Long-finned pike
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Dinolestidae
Genus:	Dinolestes Klunzinger , 1872
Species:	D. lewini
Binomial name
Dinolestes lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834)

The long-finned pike or yellowfin pike, Dinolestes lewini, is a species of perciform fish, the only species in the genus Dinolestes as well as the familia family Dinolestidae.

It is an elongated fish with a pointed snout and silver in color, similar in appearance to a barracuda, and grows up to 84 cm long. It is endemic to the coastal waters of southern Australia including New South Wales, at depths of between 5 and 65 m.

See also

• List of fish families

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Dinolestidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Dinolestes lewini" in FishBase. June 2006 version.
• "Dinolestes lewini". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=645670. Retrieved 27 March 2006. 
• "Long-finned Pike". Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 17 November 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20051117002706/http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/dlewini.htm. Retrieved 28 March 2006.