Imperial blackfish

Imperial blackfish
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 western Atlantic (Bermuda). It occurs at depths of between 70 and 700 m.^[1] In its juvenile stage it is often found finding shelter amongst of the tentacles of floating jellyfish, including the Portuguese man o' war.^[1]^[2] It grows to 100 cm (39 in) total length.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Schedophilus ovalis" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
^ Honeyborne, James & Mark Brownlow (2017). Blue Planet II. Ebury Publishing. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-4735-3007-2.

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[FishBase-1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Schedophilus ovalis" in FishBase. December 2019 version.

[2] Honeyborne, James & Mark Brownlow (2017). Blue Planet II. Ebury Publishing. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-4735-3007-2.

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