The pelagic butterfish, ''Schedophilus maculatus'', is a
medusafish
Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of percomorph fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world.
Young '' Icichthys lockingtoni'' specimens are abundant in the coastal ...
of the genus ''
Schedophilus'' found in all warm oceans. Its length is up to about 30 cm.
References
* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982)
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Centrolophidae
Fish described in 1860
Taxa named by Albert Günther