Cepola | |
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Cepola haastii | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Subclass: | Neopterygii |
Infraclass: | Teleostei |
Superorder: | Acanthopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Cepolidae |
Genus: | Cepola Linnaeus 1764 |
Diversity | |
5-6 species | |
Synonyms | |
Taenia Ræse, 1793 (non Linnaeus, 1758: preoccupied) |
Cepola is a genus of marine fish in the bandfish family Cepolidae.[1] The name red bandfish is applied to all members of this genus, but particularly C. macrophthalma, and generally not C. australis, which is also known as the Australian bandfish.[2]
Five species are recognised, and there may be a sixth, as of yet undescribed, from the waters near Bermuda.[3]
The oldest recorded recipe is for C. macrophthalma. The original recipe book, by Mithaecus, is now lost, but the recipe itself survives thanks to being quoted in the Deipnosophistae.[4][5]