Thornfish

• The thornfishes are a family, Bovichtidae, of fishes in the request Perciformes. The family is spelled Bovichthyidae in J. S. Nelson's Fishes of the World. 
• They are local to beach front waters off Australia, New Zealand, and South America, and to streams and pools of southeast Australia and Tasmania. 
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• Phylogenetic examination of morphological characters has uncovered that the family Bovichtidae isn't a monophyletic gathering