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African Barrelfish

Schedophilus velaini

A deep-bodied open-water fish of the barrelfish and medusafish group, more a fish of the blue than the reef.

African Barrelfish
Photo: mscott · CC BY-NC 4.0
Habitat
Open water over the deep

The african barrelfish belongs to the centrolophid barrelfishes, a family of oceanic, soft-bodied fish that live out over deep water rather than on reefs. Little is widely recorded about this species; like its relatives it is likely a slow-moving mid-water fish that drifts in the open sea.