Imperial blackfish

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]

Imperial blackfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scombriformes
Family: Centrolophidae
Genus: Schedophilus
Species:
S. ovalis
Binomial name
Schedophilus ovalis
(G. Cuvier, 1833)
Synonyms
  • Centrolophus ovalis Cuvier, 1833
  • Mupus ovalis (Cuvier, 1833)
  • Centrolophus crassus Cuvier, 1833
  • Leirus bennettii Lowe, 1834
  • Crius berthelotii Valenciennes, 1839
  • Mupus imperialis Cocco, 1840
  • Centrolophus porosissimus Canestrini, 1864
  • Centrolophus rotundicauda Costa, 1866
  • Schedophilus botteri Steindachner, 1868
  • Centrolophus corcyrensis Kolombatović, 1902
  • Eucrotus ventralis Bean, 1912

References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Schedophilus ovalis" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  2. Honeyborne, James & Mark Brownlow (2017). Blue Planet II. Ebury Publishing. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-4735-3007-2.


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