Megalopidae

Indo-Pacific tarpon

Megalops cyprinoides

Megalopid Fish beneath the Red Sea

• Tropical
• Lower river
• Transcontinental
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• East Asia
• Oceania
• Elongated
• Compressed cross-section
• Large
• Tropical fish

Indo-Pacific tarpon is known from Indo-Pacific as a fish. Records give a maximum length of 150 cm.