Foxfish

Foxfish

Taxobox
name = Foxfish


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Labridae
genus = "Bodianus"
species = "B. frenchii"
binomial = "Bodianus frenchii"
binomial_authority = (Klunzinger, 1880)

The foxfish, "Bodianus frenchii", is a wrasse of the genus "Bodianus", found in south western Western Australia to east South Australia, and from southern Queensland to eastern Tasmania, at depths of between 10 and 40 metres. Its length is up to 45 cm.

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