Cepola is a genus

Genus

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 of marine

Marine (ocean)

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 fish in the bandfish

Bandfish

Bandfishes are a family, Cepolidae, of perciform fishes. They are native to the Atlantic seaboard of Europe and the West Pacific, including New Zealand. They dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabed and eat zooplankton....

 family

Family (biology)

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 Cepolidae. The name red bandfish is applied to all members of this genus, but particularly C. macrophthalma, and generally not C. australis, which is also known as the Australian bandfish.

Five species are recognised, and there may be a sixth, as of yet undescribed, from the waters near Bermuda

Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

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The oldest recorded recipe is for C. macrophthalma. The original recipe book, by Mithaecus

Mithaecus

Mithaecus was a cook and cookbook author of the late 5th century BC. A Greek-speaking native of Sicily at a time when the island was rich and highly civilized, Mithaecus is credited with having brought knowledge of Sicilian gastronomy to Greece...

, is now lost, but the recipe itself survives thanks to being quoted in the Deipnosophistae

Deipnosophistae

The Deipnosophistae may be translated as The Banquet of the Learned or Philosophers at Dinner or The Gastronomers...

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Species

Species after FishBase

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• Cepola macrophthalma
  Cepola macrophthalma
  Cepola macrophthalma is a fish of the of the bandfish family Cepolidae. It is found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean from Senegal north to Norway...
  
  (Linnaeus 1758)
• Cepola australis Ogilby 1899
• Cepola haastii (Hector 1881)
• Cepola pauciradiata
  Cepola pauciradiata
  Cepola pauciradiata is a species of bandfish in the family Cepolidae. It is found on the Atlantic coast of Africa from Mauritiana to Angola, and off the coast of the Cape Verde islands. It is found on the ocean bottom at depths from . The maximum length recorded for this species is...
  
  Cadenat 1950
• Cepola schlegelii Bleeker 1854