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The 'sicklefishes' are perciform fishes of the genus '''Drepane''', the only genus in the family 'Drepaneidae'. They are found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in the eastern Atlantic near Africa. (The name "Drepanidae" has been used in the past, but a family of hook-tip moths has priority.)

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Species

Taxonomic note

References

Species

★ African sicklefish, ''Drepane africana'' Osório, 1892.

★ Concertina fish, ''Drepane longimana'' (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).

★ Spotted sicklefish, ''Drepane punctata'' Linnaeus, 1758.

Taxonomic note

There are three described species, but the distinction between ''D. longimana'' and ''D. punctata'' is based on colour, not morphology, so they may be synonyms.

References

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