Centropomidae

smallscale fat snook

Centropomus parallelus

Centropomid Fish beneath the Brazilian Coast

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Atlantic Ocean
• North America
• South America
• Fusiform
• Large
• Tropical fish

Centropomus parallelus is a species of fish in the family Centropomidae, the snooks and robalos. It is known by several common names, including fat snook, smallscale fat snook, little snook, and chucumite. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, its distribution extending from southern Florida in the United States to southern Brazil near Florianópolis.