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Escolar
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Other fish (coast and sea)

Escolar

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith, 1843)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishEscolar
DutchBotermakreel
SpanishEscolar
Chinese异鳞蛇鲭
Scientific nameLepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith, 1843)

About this species

The escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) is a species of scombriform ray-finned fish with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and temperate oceans at depths of 200 to 1,100 metres (660 to 3,610 ft). Also known as snake mackerel or walu walu (Hawaiian, sometimes written waloo), it is the only member of the genus Lepidocybium and the family Lepidocybiidae.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderPerciformes
FamilyGempylidae
GenusLepidocybium

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