Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Epigonidae > Epigonus > Epigonus telescopus

Epigonus telescopus (Telescope cardinal; Deepsea cardinalfish; Cardinalfish; Cardinal fish; Bulls-eye; Bullseye; Black deepsea cardinalfish; Black cardinalfish; Black cardinal fish; Bigeye)

Synonyms: Epigonus macrophthalmus; Pomatomus cuvieri; Pomatomus cuvierii; Pomatomus telescopium; Pomatomus telescopus
Language: Afrikaans; Catalan; Croatian; Danish; Faroese; French; German; Icelandic; Italian; Mandarin Chinese; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Sicilian; Spanish; Swedish; Turkish

Wikipedia Abstract

Epigonus telescopus, the black cardinal fish, is a species of deepwater cardinalfish found in most temperate oceans worldwide, at depths of between 75 and 1,200 metres (246 and 3,937 ft) though mostly between 300 and 800 metres (980 and 2,620 ft). It can reach a length of 75 centimetres (30 in) TL though most specimens do not exceed 55 centimetres (22 in) TL. It has been reported that this species can reach an age of 104 years.
View Wikipedia Record: Epigonus telescopus

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  104 years

Prey / Diet

Predators

Illex coindetii (southern shortfin squid)[4]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002
♦ 4CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0