White Deepsea Cardinalfish, Epigonus denticulatus Dieuzeide 1950

Other Names: Bigeye, Pencil Cardinal, White Cardinal Fish, White Cardinalfish

A White Deepsea Cardinalfish, Epigonus denticulatus. Source: Ken J. Graham / NSW Fisheries. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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White Deepsea Cardinalfish, Epigonus denticulatus Dieuzeide 1950

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Distribution	Off Wooli, New South Wales, to SW of Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia; also the Lord Howe Rise and Norfolk Ridge. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea.
Feeding	Feeds on a range of pelagic crustaceans including euphausiids, mysids and hyperiid amphipods, as well as on juvenile pelagic fishes.
Fisheries	The species may be taken as by-catch in commercial bottom trawls.
Species Citation	Epigonus denticulatus Dieuzeide 1950, Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche Castiglione 2: 89, figs 1-11, pl. 1. Type locality: Algerian Coast at 200–500 m.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2017
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

White Deepsea Cardinalfish, Epigonus denticulatus Dieuzeide 1950

References

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Dieuzeide, R. 1950. Sur un Epigonus nouveau de la Méditerranée (Epigonus denticulatus, nov. sp.). Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche Castiglione 2: 89-105.

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Gomon, M.F. 2008. Families Epigonidae, Howellidae and Sillaginidae. pp. 561-569 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp.

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Mayer, G.F. 1974. A revision of the cardinalfish genus Epigonus (Perciformes, Apogonidae), with descriptions of two new species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 146(3): 147-203 figs 1-22

Okamoto, M. & Motomura, H. 2013. Two new species of deepwater cardinalfish from the Indo-Pacific, with a definition of the Epigonus pandionis group (Perciformes: Epigonidae). Ichthyological Research 60(4): 301-311.

Whitley, G.P. 1935. Studies in Ichthyology No. 9. Records of the Australian Museum 19(4): 215-250 figs 1-11 pl. 18 (paratype misidentified as Scepterias lenimen)