White warehou
Species of fish
White warehou | |
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scombriformes |
Family: | Centrolophidae |
Genus: | Seriolella |
Species: | S. caerulea |
Binomial name | |
Seriolella caerulea Guichenot, 1848 | |
Synonyms | |
Palinurichthys caeruleus (Guichenot, 1848) |
The white warehou, Seriolella caerulea, is a medusafish of the family Centrolophidae found in the southern Pacific and southern Atlantic oceans, at depths of between 500 and 800 m. Its length is up to about 75 cm.
References
- ^ Acero, A.; Murdy, E. & Starnes, W.C. (2017) [errata version of 2010 assessment]. "Seriolella caerulea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T155281A115295177. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155281A4765461.en.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Seriolella caerulea". FishBase. March 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8