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Long-finned pike

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ1317467 ↗
Source-derived summary

The long-finned pike or yellowfin pike (Dinolestes lewini) is a species of acropomatiform ray-finned fish, the only species in the genus Dinolestes, as well as the family Dinolestidae.

It is an elongated fish with a pointed snout, and silver in color, similar in appearance to a barracuda, and grows up to 84 cm (33 in) in total length. It is endemic to the coastal waters of southern Australia, including New South Wales, at depths between 5 and 65 m (16 and 213 ft).

See also

List of fish families

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Dinolestidae". FishBase. January 2006 version.

"Dinolestes lewini". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 March 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Long-finned pike” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.