Animal Diversity Web

Pentapodus paradiseus

Blue-banded whiptail

(Also: Blue-faced whiptail; Butterfly bream; China fish; Long-tail perch)

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
        
        Order Perciformes
        
        Family Nemipteridae (Threadfin breams, Whiptail breams)
        
        Genus Pentapodus
        
        Species Pentapodus paradiseus (Blue-banded whiptail)