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Centrolophidae
brown ruff
Schedophilus medusophagus
Fish Reaching Fifty Five Centimeters in Western Atlantic
- Brown
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Brown
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Largebrown ruff is a marine fish of Eastern Atlantic. The species occupies deep water. Records give a maximum length of 55 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Centrolophidae
- Genus
- Schedophilus
- Maximum length
- 55 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Iceland (Ref. 12462 ) and Ireland to Morocco, including Azores and Madeira. Also in the western Mediterranean. Western Atlantic: Grand Banks, Canada to North Carolina, USA (Ref. 7251 ). Possibly off Australia (Ref. 7251 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
