The big-eyed cardinalfish or bigeye cardinalfish (''Epigonus lenimen'') is a
species of
deepwater cardinalfish
Epigonidae, the deepwater cardinalfishes, are a family of perciform fishes. The family includes about 43 species.
They are small fishes: the largest, ''Epigonus telescopus'', reaches in length, and most grow to no more than or so.
They are f ...
found in the southern
Indian Ocean and southwestern
Pacific Ocean from south of
Madagascar to
New Zealand. This fish occurs at depths from . This species can reach in
total length.
References
*Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982)
Epigonidae
Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley
Fish described in 1935
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