| Medusafish | |
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| Rudderfish (Centrolophus niger) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Suborder: | Stromateoidei |
| Family: | Centrolophidae Bonaparte, 1846[1] |
| Genera | |
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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]
- Centrolophus Lacépède, 1802
- Hyperoglyphe Günther, 1859
- Icichthys Jordan & Gilbert, 1880
- Psenopsis Gill, 1862
- Schedophilus Cocco, 1839
- Seriolella Guichenot, 1848
- Tubbia Whitley, 1943
Timeline of genera
Medusafish, Icichthys lockingtoni
Cornish blackfish, Schedophilus medusophagus
References
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Centrolophidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ↑ 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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