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Also known as: Cepolidae
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  • Bluefin tuna swimming underwater in a group, with silvery bodies and streamlined shapes, near Japan.
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    Family Cepolidae (bandfishes) Eocene to present. Cepolids are marine, deepwater fishes, basslike, but large mouth is oblique, eyes large, and dorsal and anal fins long, continuous, and high; caudal fin with long rays; body tapers noticeably or with a long tapering body and are shallow-water and deepwater…

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    Family Cepolidae (bandfishes) Eocene to present. Cepolids are marine, deepwater fishes, basslike, but large mouth is oblique, eyes large, and dorsal and anal fins long, continuous, and high; caudal fin with long rays; body tapers noticeably or with a long tapering body and are shallow-water and deepwater…

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