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Pristigasteridae
Dogtooth herring
Chirocentrodon bleekerianus
Pristigasterid Fish between Fresh and Salt Water
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- South America
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Elongated
MediumDogtooth herring is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in estuaries and brackish water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Pristigasteridae
- Genus
- Chirocentrodon
- Maximum length
- 16.1 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad; Panama and coasts of Venezuela, including off Orinoco mouth, Guyana, Suriname south to Ubatuba, near Santos, Brazil. Antilles and southern Caribbean from Yucatan to Santos, Brazil (Ref. 26938 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
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