snake mackerels
escolars
gempylidae latin

The domine is a tropical fish in the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).

The Gempylidae are a family of perciform fishes, commonly known as snake mackerels or escolars.

Adult snake mackerels conduct a diel vertical migration, staying in deeper water during the day and rising to the surface at night to feed.

Predators include large deep-roving sharks, cutthroat eels, merluccid hakes, and snake mackerels.

Gempylidae (snake mackerels)

Euzaphleges longurio is an extinct, superficially mackerel-like fish related to the escolar and snake mackerels.

Off Australia, this species consumes mostly teleosts, with smaller individuals taking mainly Lepidorhynchus denticulatus and larger individuals taking increasing numbers of snake mackerels and cutlassfishes.

Zaphlegulus venturaensis is an extinct, superficially mackerel-like fish related to the cutlassfish and snake mackerels found off the coast of what is now California during the late Miocene.

The snake mackerel, Gempylus serpens, is a species of fish in the monotypic genus Gempylus, belonging to the family Gempylidae (which is also referred to generally as "snake mackerels").

The Gempylidae are a family of perciform fishes, commonly known as snake mackerels or escolars.

Analysis of stomach contents reveal that pelagic threshers feed mainly on barracudinas, lightfishes, and escolars, all inhabitants of the mesopelagic zone.

The diet of the silvertip shark consists primarily of bony fishes, such as grouper, mackerel, tuna, escolars, lanternfish, flyingfish, wrasses, and soles.

The Gempylidae are a family of perciform fishes, commonly known as snake mackerels or escolars.

However, x-ray analysis of the bone structure strongly suggests a relationship with the snake-mackerels, with some experts placing them within Gempylidae.

The white snake mackerel, Thyrsitops lepidopoides, is a species of mackerel-like fish in the family Gempylidae.

Family Gempylidae (Snake Mackerels)

The escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, a species of fish in the family Gempylidae, is found in deep (200-885 m) tropical and temperate waters around the world.

Slender escolar (Paradiplospinus gracilis) of the Gempylidae, and Champsocephalus gunneri, is also consumed.

In addition, a number of species with mackerel-like characteristics in the families Carangidae, Hexagrammidae and Gempylidae are commonly referred to as mackerel.

Thyrsites atun, the "snoek" or "Cape snoek", is a long, thin, perch-like commercial food fish belonging to the Gempylidae family.

The snake mackerel, Gempylus serpens, is a species of fish in the monotypic genus Gempylus, belonging to the family Gempylidae (which is also referred to generally as "snake mackerels").

The fish bears some resemblance to members of Gempylidae, but has protrusible premaxilla, serrated opercle and preopercle, and a spur on the lowest principal caudal ray, all of which are characteristic of percoids.