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Carangidae
African pompano
Alectis ciliaris
A pompano spanning tropical and temperate seas
- Cross-climate
- Subtropical
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- South Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Cross-climate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
LargeAfrican pompano is known from Circumglobal in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Alectis
- Maximum length
- 150 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Circumglobal in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas. Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and Bermuda to Santos, Brazil; throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 9626 ). Eastern Atlantic: Senegal to Congo. Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea to Algoa Bay, South Africa and to Sri Lanka (Ref. 3197 , 3287 ). Eastern Pacific: Mexico to Peru.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
