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Scombridae
butterfly kingfish
Gasterochisma melampus
Scombrid Fish from Two Hundred Meters
butterfly kingfish is known from Circumglobal in southern temperate waters as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Gasterochisma
- Maximum length
- 164 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Circumglobal in southern temperate waters.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

