Species: Epinnula magistralis, Domine escolar

preopercle: 2 spines

D XV-XVI
Epinnula magistralis Poey, 1854
Domine escolar
Body deep (~1/4 SL), compressed; head 25-33% SL, a bump before nostrils; lower corner of preopercle with 2 small sharp spines; operculum with 2 flat spines; lower jaw projects, neither jaws have front knobs; top jaws with several pairs of fixed & flexible fangs at front, lower jaws with 1 pair of fixed fangs at front; 1st dorsal high, XV-XVI + 13-17 (its base <1/2 length of 1st dorsal base); anal fin slightly smaller than 2nd dorsal, I+I free spines + I, 13-17; no dorsal and anal finlets; pectoral short, rounded, 15; pelvics larger than pectorals I, 5; tail base without keel; lateral lines double, running near upper and lower body profiles, lower splits off from the top line via a vertical branch a little behind pectoral base; skin smooth, scales small, no tubercles, no belly keel.
Light blue grey; first dorsal, anal and pelvics black; tail fin black, with dark blue base; inside mouth and gill chamber brown; lining of gut cavity black.
Reaches 124 cm.
Oceanic, deep benthopelagic.
Depth: 100-500 m.
At scattered locations in all 3 oceans; Bermuda to the Caribbean.

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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- In & Offshore
- Offshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom + water column
- Near Bottom
- Mid Water
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Water column
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bentho-Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Pelagic crustacea
- Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 124
- Depth Range Min
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- 100
- Depth Range Max
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- 500