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Carangidae
rainbow runner
Elagatis bipinnulata
Carangid Fish of Indo Pacific
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Fusiform
Largerainbow runner is a migratory fish of Western Atlantic. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 180 cm. Its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Elagatis
- Maximum length
- 180 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Ref. 57756 ). Eastern Atlantic: off Genoa, Italy in the Mediterranean (Ref. 4233 ) and from Côte d'Ivoire to Angola (Ref. 7097 ). Throughout the Indo-Pacific (Ref. 37816 ), but rare or absent in the Persian Gulf (Ref. 3287 ). Eastern Pacific: mouth of Gulf of California to Ecuador; including the Galapagos Islands (Ref. 9283 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
