Silver warehou
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The silver warehou, Seriolella punctata, is a medusafish
of the family
Centrolophidae found in the southern Indian
and southern Pacific oceans, at depths of between 100 and 650 m. Its length is up to about 65 cm.
Medusafish
Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of perciform fishes. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world.Young Icichthys lockingtoni are abundant in the coastal waters of the north Pacific, where they are often found in association with jellyfish, which provides them...
of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Centrolophidae found in the southern Indian
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
and southern Pacific oceans, at depths of between 100 and 650 m. Its length is up to about 65 cm.