Scientific Name	Scombrops boops   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	(Houttuyn, 1782)	Depth	20 - 400M
Chinese	牛眼鯥	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鯥科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F358　Scombropidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	牛眼青鯥
Max Length	150 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	牛眼鯥、牛目仔
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	East、PonFu
Habitats	Deep Sea、Coral、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Nagasaki, Japan
Synonyms	Labrus boops, Scombrops cheilodipteroïdes, Scombrops cheilodipteroides, Scombrops dubius
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；The Live Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific, Vol.4(FAO,1999)  Yasuda, F. etc. 1971 Mochizuki, K. 1979 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993
Specimen List	ASIZP0056120. ASIZP0056135. ASIZP0060790. ASIZP0075009. ASIZP0075463. ASIZP0075472. FRIP01357. FRIP20529. FRIP21715.
Common Name	Gnomefish
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body elongate, slightly compressed. Head (including maxilla) and body covered with cycloid scales. Eyes large. Preopercle finely serrate, with ventral lobe. No spines on opercle. Mouth large, maxilla reaching to below rear half of eye. Lower jaw with 2 or 3 canines at front, followed by a row of 8 or 9 large, knife-like spaced teeth; upper jaw with 12 or 13 large canines and 2 or 3 fang-like teeth just in front of vomer tooth patch; 1 or 2 rows of compressed canines on palatines and a patch of smaller teeth on vomer; 2 elongate patches of small slender teeth on tongue. First gill arch with 2 to 5 gill rakers on upper limb and 12 to 17 on lower limb. Two dorsal fins, the first with VIII or IX spines, the second with I spine and 13 or 14 soft rays; anal fin with III spines (first minute) and 11 to 13 soft rays; caudal fin forked. Soft dorsal, anal, and caudal fins scaly. Lateral line complete, with 50 to 57 pored scales to base of caudal fin. Adults golden purplish brown; body of juveniles reddish brown or yellowish dorsally, paler ventrally.
habitats	Adults found in deep rocky areas; young found in shallow water. The diet consists of fishes, crustaceans and squids. Spawns from October to March. Biology little known.
Distribution	Distributed in the Indo-West Pacific, including Mozambique and South Africa, Japan and the East China Sea. Southeast Atlantic: Cape, South Africa. It is occasionally found in Northeastern Taiwanese waters.
Utility	Rare deep-sea fishes of no commercial importance.