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Medusafish ( englanti )

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Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of percomorph fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world.

Young Icichthys lockingtoni specimens are abundant in the coastal waters of the north Pacific, where they are often found in association with jellyfish, which provide them with protection from predators and opportunities to scavenge the remains of the jellyfishes' meals.

Genera

The following genera are classified within the family Centrolophidae:[2]

Timeline of genera

[3]

Medusafish, Icichthys lockingtoni
Cornish blackfish, Schedophilus medusophagus

References

  1. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Centrolophidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
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Medusafish: Brief Summary ( englanti )

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Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of percomorph fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world.

Young Icichthys lockingtoni specimens are abundant in the coastal waters of the north Pacific, where they are often found in association with jellyfish, which provide them with protection from predators and opportunities to scavenge the remains of the jellyfishes' meals.

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Description ( englanti )

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Distribution: All tropical and temperate seas, excepting most of mid-Indian and mid-Pacific. Adults with pelvic fins. Continuous dorsal fin. Dorsal fin either with 0-5 feeble spines graduating to soft rays or 5-9 stout and much shorter spines not graduating to soft rays. Anal fin rays 15-41, usually 3 of which are spines.

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MASDEA (1997).

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