Creedia haswelli, the slender sandburrower, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Creediidae, the sandburrowers. This species is found in Southern Australia.[2] This species reaches a length of 7.5 cm (3.0 in). [1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acropomatiformes |
| Family: | Creediidae |
| Genus: | Creedia |
| Species: | C. haswelli
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| Binomial name | |
| Creedia haswelli (E. P. Ramsay, 1881)
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Taxonomy
editCreedia haswelli was first formally described as Hemerocoetes haswelli in 1881 by the Australian zoologist Edward Pierson Ramsay with its type locality given as Port Head in Port Jackson in New South Wales.[3] This species is classified within the genus Creedia, which contains 4 species, which is the type genus of the family Creediidae. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this family within the order Trachiniformes.[4]
Etymology
editCreedia haswelli is named in honour of Scots-born Australian zoologist William Aitcheson Haswell.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Creedia haswelli". FishBase. February 2023 version.
- ^ Kuiter, R.H., 1993. Coastal fishes of south-eastern Australia. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu, Hawaii. 437 p.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Creedia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 423–424. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order PEMPHERIFORMES: Families CHAMPSODONTIDAE, CREEDIIDAE, LEPTOSCOPIDAE, HEMEROCOETIDAE, HOWELLIDAE, SYNAGROPIDAE, MALAKICHTHYIDAE, ACROPOMATIDAE, SYMPHYSANODONTIDAE, EPIGONIDAE, POLYPRIONIDAE, LATEOBRACIDAE, GLAUCOSOMATIDAE, PEMPHERIDAE, BATHYCLUPEIDAE, PENTACEROTIDAE, OSTRACOBERYCIDAE and BANJOSIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Patricia Morrison (1983). "Haswell, William Aitcheson (1854–1925)". Australian National Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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