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Centrolophidae
barrelfish
Hyperoglyphe perciformis
Centrolophid Fish from the Mediterranean Sea
barrelfish is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Centrolophidae
- Genus
- Hyperoglyphe
- Maximum length
- 91 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia in Canada to southern Florida in USA and eastern Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 7251 ). Eastern Atlantic: juveniles occasionally accompany floating objects across the Atlantic and have been recorded from Ireland, around the British Isles, off Portugal and the western Mediterranean.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

