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Lepidocybium flavobrunneum
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Escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) are a species of snake mackerel with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and temperate oceans at depths of . Also known as snake mackerel or ' (Hawaiian, sometimes written '), it is the only member of its genus.
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Vinony's link graph records 32 inbound references to Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, and connects out to Animalia, International Standard Book Number and Chordata.
It sits within the topics Fish described in 1843, Gempylidae and IUCN Red List least concern species.
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Species
Least Concernescolar
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyGempylidae
異鱗蛇鯖，又名鱗網帶鰆，學名Lepidocybium flavobrunneum，中文俗稱油魚、玉梭魚，又名白玉豚，英文俗稱 Escolar、Oilfish、Black Oilfish、rudderfish、white tuna，是輻鰭魚綱鱸形目帶鰆科異鱗蛇鯖屬的唯一品種。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 95
- With media
- 16
- Family
- Gempylidae
- Collections
- SIO, USNM, CSIRO, LACM, TCWC, AM
- Recorded in
- Bahamas, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Australia, Panama, United States, Ecuador, Honduras
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Image
- Obs smiths escolar3.jpg
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- taxon name
- Lepidocybium flavobrunneum
- Commons category
- Lepidocybium flavobrunneum
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon common name
- 圓鱈
- taxon range
- Brazil
- short name
- L. flavobrunneum
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Escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) are a species of snake mackerel with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and temperate oceans at depths of . Also known as snake mackerel or ' (Hawaiian, sometimes written '), it is the only member of its genus.
==Description== The escolar is dark brown, growing darker with age until it is quite black. It is a fast-swimming fish with a prominent lateral keel and four to six finlets after the anal and second dorsal fins. Escolar can grow to over in length, but are on average around . Like its relative the oilfish (Ruvettus pretiosus), escolar cannot metabolize the wax esters naturally found in its diet, instead distributing the undigestible oil throughout their bodies. As a result, around 20% of the escolar's body weight is oil.
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