Pelagic butterfish

Pelagic butterfish

Taxobox
name = Pelagic butterfish


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Centrolophidae
genus = "Schedophilus"
species = "S. maculatus"
binomial = "Schedophilus maculatus"
binomial_authority = Günther, 1860
The pelagic butterfish, "Schedophilus maculatus", is a medusafish of the genus "Schedophilus" found in all warm oceans. Its length is up to about 30 cm.

The pelagic butterfish is one of the smallest and rarest members of the Centrolophidae family. It has a very blunt head and narrow but deep body coloured yellowish mottled with dark grey. The single long dorsal fin extends from above the gills to just before the caudal peduncle.

Juveniles are known to live within jellyfish, but move to deeper water as they grow and mature.

References

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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8


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