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Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Perciformes (Perch-likes) > Gempylidae (Snake mackerels)
Etymology: Rexea: Latin, rex, rego = king.

Environment / Climate / Range Ecology

Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 180 - 400 m (Ref. 6181). Deep-water, preferred ?; 20°S - 27°S, 90°W - 81°W (Ref. 6181)

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Southeast Pacific: known only from seamounts of Nazca Submarine Ridge and adjacent parts of Sala y Gomez Ridge.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 43.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 6181); max. reported age: 15 years (Ref. 6204)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 18; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15-18; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 12 - 14; Vertebrae: 34. Lateral line branching below the 5th to 7th spine of the first dorsal fin, usually ending below the third to the last spine of the first dorsal fin. The lower branch runs mid laterally, sometimes undulating on caudal peduncle. Body is entirely scaled at a length of over 20 cm SL. Pyloric caeca 7 or 8. Body color is brown with silvery tint; anterior 2 membranes of the first dorsal fin black, the rest of the fin black edged; the posterior part of the pectoral fin is black.

Feeds on squid and fish. Matures at about 25 cm.

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Parin, Nikolay V. | Collaborators

Nakamura, I. and N.V. Parin, 1993. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 15. Snake mackerels and cutlassfishes of the world (families Gempylidae and Trichiuridae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the snake mackerels, snoeks, escolars, gemfishes, sackfishes, domine, oilfish, cutlassfishes,. scabbardfishes, hairtails, and frostfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(15):136 p. (Ref. 6181)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Not Evaluated

CITES (Ref. 94142)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Rexea brevilineata Parin, 1989