Ambassis

Taxobox
name = Ambassis

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image_caption = "Ambassis nama"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
subordo = Percoidei
superfamilia = Percoidea
familia = Ambassidae
genus = "Ambassis"
genus_authority = Cuvier, 1828
type_species = "Centropomus ambassis" (Lacepède ,1802)

"Ambassis" is a genus of fish in the Ambassidae family. The genus was created by French naturalist Georges Cuvier, and is Greek for 'climbing up'. It contains the following species:
* Agassiz's olive glassfish, "Ambassis agassizii" Steindachner, 1867.
* Sailfin glass perchlet, "Ambassis agrammus" Günther, 1867.
* Commerson's glassy, "Ambassis ambassis" (Lacépède, 1802).
* Buru glass perchlet, "Ambassis buruensis" Bleeker, 1856.
* Buton glassy perchlet, "Ambassis buton" Popta, 1918.
* Malabar glassy perchlet, "Ambassis dussumieri" Cuvier, 1828.
* Yellowfin glassfish, "Ambassis elongatus" (Castelnau, 1878).
* Dusky glass perch, "Ambassis fontoynonti" Pellegrin, 1932.
* Bald glassy, "Ambassis gymnocephalus" (Lacépède, 1802).
* Long-spined glass perchlet, "Ambassis interrupta" Bleeker, 1852.
* Port Jackson perchlet, "Ambassis jacksoniensis" (Macleay, 1881).
* Freckled hawkfish, "Ambassis kopsii" Bleeker, 1858.
* Macleay's glass perchlet, "Ambassis macleayi" (Castelnau, 1878).
* Estuarine glass perchlet, "Ambassis macracanthus" Bleeker, 1849.
* Estuary perchlet, "Ambassis marianus" Günther, 1880.
* Flag-tailed glass perchlet, "Ambassis miops" Günther, 1872.
* Mueller's glassfish, "Ambassis muelleri" Klunzinger, 1880.
* Scalloped perchlet, "Ambassis nalua" (Hamilton, 1822).
* Slender glassy, "Ambassis natalensis" Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908.
* Longspine glassy, "Ambassis productus" Guichenot, 1866.
* Banded-tail glassy perchlet, "Ambassis urotaenia" Bleeker, 1852.
* Vachelli's glass perchlet, "Ambassis vachellii" Richardson, 1846.