Banded bellowsfish

Banded bellows fish ( Centriscops humerosus )

The Banded bellows fish ( Centriscops humerosus ) is a species of fish Schnepf and widespread in the southern hemisphere, especially in moderate seas.

Features

The Banded bellows fish has a high, strongly laterally flattened body and a striking, long solid and tubular snout. It reaches a body length of 28 to 30 centimeters. While the juveniles are silvery with pale diagonal bands that adults are silvery white, the orange six diagonal bands, dark red, brown to almost blackish. Older fish grows a large hump behind the head. In a series of behind the eyes, there are four elongated bone plates.

The fish has a two-part dorsal fin, the first consists of seven spines and the second spine is extended prominently. The second dorsal fin consists of 16 to 18 and the anal fin from 17 to 21 fin rays.

Dissemination

The Banded bellows fish comes circumglobal ago in the seas of the southern hemisphere. So he lives in the South Atlantic on the coast of South Africa, Argentina, as well as in Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, also in the southwest Pacific to the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. The main range has the fish in temperate latitudes, south to 55 degrees south latitude.

Way of life

The fish live close to the ground, especially in coastal areas at depths 35-1000 m (mostly 400-750 m ) on the continental shelf. They feed on bottom-dwelling invertebrates.