Cepola pauciradiata is a species of bandfish

Bandfish

Bandfishes are a family, Cepolidae, of perciform fishes. They are native to the Atlantic seaboard of Europe and the West Pacific, including New Zealand. They dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabed and eat zooplankton....

 in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Cepolidae. It is found on the Atlantic coast of Africa from Mauritiana

Mauritiana

Mauritiana is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Requienellaceae....

 to Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

, and off the coast of the Cape Verde

Cape Verde

The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

 islands. It is found on the ocean bottom at depths from 40 to 180 m (131.2 to 590.6 ft). The maximum length recorded for this species is 70 centimetres (27.6 in). This species is known as the red bandfish, a name given to most of the other members of the genus Cepola

Cepola

Cepola is a genus of marine fish in the bandfish family Cepolidae. The name red bandfish is applied to all members of this genus, but particularly C. macrophthalma, and generally not C...

, especially the European species, Cepola macrophthalma

Cepola macrophthalma

Cepola macrophthalma is a fish of the of the bandfish family Cepolidae. It is found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean from Senegal north to Norway...

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