Fish of the Cepola genus of the Cepolidae (bandfishes) family of the Cepoloidea superfamily of the Percoidei suborder of the Perciformes order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Red bandfish. Photo by © Liam Faisey. cornishkayakangler.weebly.com)
Red bandfish (Cepola macrophthalma) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
It inhabits the depth of 15-400 meters. It lives in holes that it makes in a sandy or silty bottom. The maximum recorded length is 80 cm, specimens up to 40 cm long are more common. It feeds on zooplankton and crustaceans.
(Red bandfish. Photo by © Pedro Tomas. flickr.com/photos/61582082@N02)
It is a permanent inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of red bandfish (Cepola macrophthalma) in other languages as follows:
Peshk shirit (Albanian), Rode lintvis (Dutch), Κορδέλα (Kordela) (Greek), Cepola (Spanish), Cepola (Italian), Roter Bandfisch (German), Wstęgówka (Polish), Suspensório (Portuguese), Европейская цепола (Evropejskaja cepola) (Russian), Mačinac crveni (Serbian, Croatian), Rdeči mečak (Slovenian), Flandra balığı (Turkish), Cépole commune (French).