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Old 02-19-2008, 10:25 AM   #94 (permalink)
Tophat665
Minion of the scaléd ones
 
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Looks like a Dory of some sort, but I don't see anything in Fishbase under Genus Zeus or Family Zeidae that matches, and the mouth is wrong. (Funny thing - Pterophyllum scalare - the freshwater angelfish - was at one point classifies in the Geneus Zeus with John Dories) Could it be an Oreo of some sort?

How about Neocyttus rhomboidalis, the Spiky Oreo? A deepwater fish, related to the Dories, living on the continental slope of the Southern Oceans, forming large shoals and feeding on salps, crustaceans, fish, and squid.
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