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Carangidae
ocean robin
Decapterus macarellus
Forty Six Centimeters Carangid Fish from the South African Coast
ocean robin is a marine fish of Circumglobal. The species occupies marine waters. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 46 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Decapterus
- Maximum length
- 46 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Circumglobal. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and Bermuda to approximately Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Ref. 57756 ). Appears to be absent from the Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 9626 ). Eastern Atlantic: St. Helena, Ascension, Cape Verde, and Gulf of Guinea (Ref. 7097 ); Azores and Madeira (Ref. 4233 ). Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Seychelles, Mascarenes, South Africa, and Sri Lanka (Ref. 3287 ). Eastern Pacific: Gulf of California and Revillagigedo Island to Ecuador (Ref. 9283 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

