Imperial blackfish

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

The imperial blackfish, Schedophilus ovalis, is a medusafish of the family Centrolophidae found in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, and occasionally off the coast of South Africa at depths of between 70 and 700 m. In its juvenile stage it is often found finding shelter amongst of the tentacles of the Portuguese man o' war[1]. Its length is up to 100 cm.

References

  1. ↑ Honeyborne, James; Brownlow, Mark (2017-10-19). Blue Planet II. Random House. ISBN 9781473530072.



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