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Royal escolar
Rexea prometheoides
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Royal escolar
- Scientific
- Rexea prometheoides
- Dhivehi
- ލައް ކައްޓެޅިLah katteihi
- Maximum size
- Up to about 40 cm (standard length) (FishBase); MRS 1997 gives max. 40 cm (standard length)
- Depth and habitat
- Near the bottom and in the water column above it, recorded from 135 to 540 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A silvery-brown escolar with a black blotch at the front of the first dorsal fin, reaching about 40 cm. It lives near the bottom at about 135 to 540 m.
In the Maldives
Dhivehi name lah kattelhi (MRS 1997). MRS records specimens trawled at about 200 m north of Baa Atoll by the research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen in 1983.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Rexea-prometheoides.html
- fao.org /4/AD471E/AD471E00.htm
- dv.wikipedia.org /wiki/ލައް_ކައްޓެޅި
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Escolier_royal_(Rexea_prometheoides)_(Ifremer_00762-87431).
Dhivehi name source: M.R.S. (1997) Fishes of the Maldives (FAO/BOBP MAG/21) gives 'Lah katteihi' (Latin form). Thaana from the Dhivehi Wikipedia article 'ލައް ކައްޓެޅި' (derived from the MRS 1997 Dhivehi edition); it matches the Latin form.