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Albulidae
bonefish
Albula vulpes
A famed gamefish of warm seas worldwide
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Globally widespread
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Fusiform
Largebonefish is known around Worldwide in warm seas as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 104 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Bonefishes
- Family
- Albulidae
- Genus
- Albula
- Maximum length
- 104 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Worldwide in warm seas. Hawaiian species have been verified by electrophoretic analysis (Ref. 5577 ), hence, Albula vulpes might be further split. Eastern Pacific: California, USA to Peru (Ref. 2850 ). Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA to Florida, Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, Antilles and Caribbean to Brazil (Ref. 26938 ). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ). The West African form is Albula goreensis , Valenciennes, 1846.
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
Class
Family
Conservation status
