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Scabbard Fish (LEPIDOPUS CAUDATUSR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Scabbard Fish (LEPIDOPUS CAUDATUSR)occurs on the continental shelf, along its edge and upper slope down to 400 m (600 m in Australia), usually over sandy and muddy bottoms from 100 to 250 m (over 300 m in Australia). It migrates into midwater at night. Forms schools; occasionally found inshore in upwelling of deep water when it appears at surface.The Scabbard fish is found in the following regions:- Eastern Atlantic: France and western Mediterranean to Senegal, including Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands and offshore seamounts; Cape Fria, Namibia to Agulhas Bank, South Africa including northern Walvis Ridge. Southern Indian Ocean: seamounts 30 to 35°S. Southwest Pacific: Australia (New South Wales to southern West Australia) and New Zealand. Southeast Pacific: Peru. A doubtful record from Cape San Lucas, Mexico.
The Scabbard fish has a number of distinguishing features. It has a body that is uniformly silver and the pelvic fin is very small. Dorsal soft rays (total): 98-110; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 59-66; Vertebrae: 105-114. Second anal-fin spine plate-like. Pyloric caeca 20 - 29. The Scabbard Fish feeds on crustaceans, small squid and fish. Information supplied by http://www.fishbase.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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