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The Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) is a ray-finned fish that inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers.It is also known as the silver king.It is found in the Atlantic Ocean, typically in tropical and subtropical regions, though it has been reported as far north as Nova Scotia and the Atlantic coast of southern France, and as far south as Argentina.
The two species of tarpon are M. atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon) and M. cyprinoides (Indo-Pacific tarpon): M. atlanticus is found on the western Atlantic coast from Virginia to Brazil, throughout the Caribbean and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Tarpon are also found along the eastern Atlantic coast from Senegal to South Angola. [4]
Megalops setipinnis Richardson 1846 Megalops staigeri Castelnau 1878 The Indo-Pacific tarpon ( Megalops cyprinoides ), also known as the oxeye herring or simply herring due to its superficial resemblance to the true herrings , of which it is not a member, is the smaller of the two species of tarpon and lives in Indo-Pacific waters.
Other species include eel, [4] the bull shark (Carcharinus leucas), [4] [11] tarpon (Megalops atlanticus), snook (Centropomus parallelus) [11] and tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus). [ 4 ] [ 11 ] As of 1995 only a single species of freshwater mollusc had been recovered from the park, a small bivalve identified as either Mytilopsis guianensis ...
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Emmelichthyops atlanticus, the bonnetmouth, is a marine fish species of grunt native to the western Atlantic Ocean, where it occurs from Florida and the Bahamas to northern South America. This species is the only known member of its genus .
[2] It includes three species: [3] Teuthowenia maculata (Leach, 1817) - found in the tropical waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Teuthowenia megalops (Prosch, 1849) - found in the subarctic, temperate, and (rarely) subtropical waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Teuthowenia pellucida (Chun, 1910) - found throughout the oceans of the ...
Distribution and habitat [ edit ] Phenacoscorpius scorpionfishes have an almost circumtropical distribution and are mainly found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with one species in the western Atlantic Ocean, although they are not found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.These are deepwater fishes typically found deeper then 500 m (1,600 ft).