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Ladyfish Elops saurus, Fort Desoto County Park, Tampa Bay, November 2016. Like other species in its genus, the ladyfish has a long, slender, rounded body covered with silvery scales. Its mouth is terminal and the tail is deeply forked. The species can be distinguished by counting the number of gill rakers and vertebrae. [4]
The Elopidae are a family of ray-finned fish containing a single living genus Elops. They are commonly known as ladyfish , skipjacks , jack-rashes , or tenpounders . The ladyfish are a coastal-dwelling fish found throughout the tropical and subtropical regions, occasionally venturing into temperate waters. [ 3 ]
The Elopiformes / ˈ ɛ l ə p ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are the order of ray-finned fish including the tarpons, tenpounders, and ladyfish, as well as a number of extinct types.They have a long fossil record, easily distinguished from other fishes by the presence of an additional set of bones in the throat.
The malacho or Southern ladyfish, [1] (Elops smithi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Elops, the only genus in the monotypic family Elopidae. Description [ edit ]
Elops machnata; Elops saurus; Elops smithi; P. Pacific ladyfish; ... West African ladyfish This page was last edited on 16 March 2013, at 08:45 (UTC). Text ...
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