Little pineapple fish

Little pineapple fish
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Beryciformes
Family:	Trachichthyidae
Genus:	Sorosichthys Whitley, 1945
Species:	S. ananassa
Binomial name
Sorosichthys ananassa Whitley, 1945

The little pineapple fish, Sorosichthys ananassa, is a small slimehead of the family Trachichthyidae, the only member of the genus Sorosichthys, found in the eastern Indian Ocean, on the continental shelf of the southwestern coasts of Western Australia and South Australia, at depths of between 50 and 70 metres (160 and 230 ft). Its length is up to about 8 centimetres (3.1 in) TL.

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Sorosichthys ananassa". FishBase. October 2012 version.