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Milkfishes
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Milkfishes

Chanidae

Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the milkfish (Chanos chanos).

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Milkfishes

genusChanos

Aethalionopsis

genusAethalionopsis

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55541.