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Concertina Fish

Drepane longimana

A deep, silvery, disc-shaped fish trailing long sickle-shaped fins over coastal sand and mud.

Also known as konsertinavis

Concertina Fish
Photo: Tse Chung Yi · CC BY-NC 4.0
Habitat
Sandy and muddy coastal bottoms

The concertina fish, or sicklefish, is a tall, compressed, silvery fish of coastal Indo-Pacific waters, named for its long, drawn-out fins. It typically lives over sandy and muddy bottoms in inshore and estuarine areas rather than on rocky reef.