Cape dory

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{Other uses|Cape Dory (disambiguation){{!}}Cape Dory}}

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| image = Cape dory.jpg

| image_caption = Cape dory (Zeus capensis)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Auster, P. |author2=Chao, N.L. |author3=McEachran, J. |author4=Williams, J. |year=2010 |errata=2017 |title=Zeus capensis |volume=2010 |page=e.T154956A115256082 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T154956A4676724.en |access-date=16 January 2023}}

| genus = Zeus (fish)

| species = capensis

| authority = Valenciennes, 1835

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The Cape dory, Cape Dory, or Cape John Dory (Zeus capensis) is a fish of the family Zeidae. It occurs on the coast of Namibia, South Africa, and Mozambique in South Atlantic and Western Indian Oceans. It is a demersal fish that lives at the depth 35–400 m. It can reach up to 90.0 cm in total length.

It is often caught as by-catch in hake fisheries.

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