Cepolidae

Guinean Bandfish

Cepola pauciradiata

Seventy Centimeters Bandfish of European Waters

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Africa
• Large
• Tropical fish

Cepola pauciradiata, the Guinean bandfish (also known as the red bandfish, a name given to most of the other members of the genus Cepola, especially the European species, Cepola macrophthalma), is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cepolidae, the bandfishes. It is found on the Atlantic coast of Africa.