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Longfin escolar
The longfin escolar, Scombrolabrax heterolepis, also known as the black mackerel, is a widespread but uncommon deep sea fish that presents some difficulties for taxonomy.
A 12 cm long Longfin Escolar from the Coral Sea
A 17 mm Longfin Bannerfish, caught off Waianae, Hawaii
A 2.5 m long Bull Shark at 'The Cod Hole'
A 25 cm long Viperfish.
A 42 mm Australian Handfish
A 5 cm standard length Triplewart Seadevil.
Related to the mackerels are the escolars and rabbit fishes of Mediterranean and Cuban waters and the cutlass, or scabbard, fish, a degenerate eellike offshoot of the mackerels, found off the coast of Florida.
 See also: Longfin, Gnu, Snake, Bat, Salmon
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