African Sicklefish
Drepane africana
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The African sicklefish is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Drepaneidae, the sicklefishes. This fish is found in the costal waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands and Mauritania south to Angola, including the Cape Verde Islands and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea. It is a coastal species found over sandy and muddy bottoms between depths of 10 and 75 m, moving into coastal lagoons at sexual maturity.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Drepaneidae
- Genus
- Drepane