Medusafish

Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of percomorph fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world.

Medusafish
Rudderfish (Centrolophus niger)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Order: Scombriformes
Suborder: Stromateoidei
Family: Centrolophidae
Bonaparte, 1846[1]
Genera

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Young Icichthys lockingtoni specimens are abundant in the coastal waters of the north Pacific, where they are often found in association with jellyfish, which provide them with protection from predators and opportunities to scavenge the remains of the jellyfishes' meals.

Genera

The following genera are classified within the family Centrolophidae:[2]

Timeline of genera
QuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleoceneHyperoglypheQuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleocene

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Medusafish, Icichthys lockingtoni
Cornish blackfish, Schedophilus medusophagus

References
  1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  2. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Centrolophidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
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