Species: Hyperoglyphe perciformis, Barrelfish driftfish, the Barrelfish

snout > eye
D origin over/behind pectoral base

Hyperoglyphe perciformis (Mitchill, 1818)
Barrelfish
Body moderately elongate (depth 30-35% of SL), compressed; head covered with pores; blunt, thick snout, its length > eye; eye large, without fleshy eyelid; bony ring around eye not well developed, iris is an entire golden ring; mouth large; most of top jaw hidden under bone above it; roof of mouth toothless; preopercle edge with numerous tiny spines; opercle thin, with 2 weak flat spines; gill rakers heavy, finely toothed on front surface, 7+1 + 15-17; one continuous, long-based, low dorsal fin, VIII-IX short stout spines of uniform length, 19-21 soft rays, origin over or a little behind pectoral base; anal origin under rear 1/2 of dorsal, III, 15-17; pelvic fins origin under base of pectoral, fin attached to body by membrane and folds into a groove; tail fin forked; pectorals 20-22, rounded in young, pointed in adult; scales smooth, somewhat loose, covering bases of median fins; skin thin, with an extensive canal system underneath that opens to surface via small pores; lateral line arched, straightens out over anal fin; 89-95 lateral line scales.
Adults dark, greenish to brownish; young blackish, with mottling.
Reaches 91 cm.
Near bottom pelagic; young associate with flotsam.
Depth range: 0-241 m, adults below 60 m.
Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico; strays to the eastern Atlantic.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Offshore
- Offshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Near Bottom
- Surface
- Near Surface
- Water column only
- Mid Water
- Habitat
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- Flotsam
- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Pelagic jellyfish/ctenophores
- Bony fishes
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- All species..
- Extends North of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Temperate (>35N)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 91
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 241