Anoplopomatidae
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| Sablefishes | |
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| Sablefish, Anoplopoma fimbria | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Anoplopomatidae |
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The sablefishes are a family, Anoplopomatidae, of scorpaeniform fishes. They are found in coastal waters of the north Pacific from Japan to California, where they live near the sea floor in deep water: the sablefish, Anoplopoma fimbria, has been found down to 1,830 metres (6,000 ft). They are large fish, with the skilfish being up to 180 centimetres (5.9 ft) in length.[1] They are commercially important fishes, and are often given the market name blackcod.
[edit] Species
There are two species in two genera:
- Genus Anoplopoma
- Genus Erilepis
- Skilfish, Erilepis zonifer (Lockington, 1880).
[edit] References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N. (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N.. ed. Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 178. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Anoplopomatidae" in FishBase. February 2006 version.
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