Arripidae

Northern kahawai

Arripis xylabion

Arripid Fish beneath Western Pacific

• Tropical
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Large
• Tropical fish

Arripis xylabion, the giant kahawai, northern kahawai or Kermadec kahawai, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, one of the four species in the genus Arripis, which is the only genus in the family Arripidae. It is endemic to the south-western Pacific Ocean.