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Epigonidae
pencil cardinal
Epigonus denticulatus
Epigonid Fish of the Hawaiian Islands
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
Globally widespread
Marine fish
Africa
Fusiform
Mediumpencil cardinal is a marine fish from Cosmopolitan. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Oceanic Basses
- Family
- Epigonidae
- Genus
- Epigonus
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan. Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Eastern Atlantic: along the west coast of Africa to the southern tip of the continent, also western Mediterranean to southern Adriatic Sea. Indian Ocean: Reunion (Ref. 33390 ). Western Pacific: southwest coast of Japan, southern Australia and eastern New Zealand. Central Pacific: Hawaiian Ridge (Ref. 31632 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
