Imperial blackfish
Imperial blackfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scombriformes |
Family: | Centrolophidae |
Genus: | Schedophilus |
Species: | S. ovalis
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Binomial name | |
Schedophilus ovalis (G. Cuvier, 1833)
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The imperial blackfish, Schedophilus ovalis, is a medusafish of the family Centrolophidae found in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, and occasionally western Atlantic (Bermuda). It occurs at depths of between 70 and 700 m.[1] In its juvenile stage it is often found finding shelter amongst of the tentacles of floating jellyfish, including the Portuguese man o' war.[1][2] It grows to 100 cm (39 in) total length.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Schedophilus ovalis" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ Honeyborne, James & Mark Brownlow (2017). Blue Planet II. Ebury Publishing. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-4735-3007-2.
Categories:
- Centrolophidae
- Fish of the East Atlantic
- Fish of the Mediterranean Sea
- Fauna of Bermuda
- Fish described in 1833
- Taxa named by Georges Cuvier
- Perciformes stubs