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Gonorynchidae
Beaked salmon
Gonorynchus gonorynchus
Buried in sand to forage
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Oceania
- South America
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Elongated
LargeBeaked salmon is a marine fish from Southeast Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 60 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Gonorynchidae
- Genus
- Gonorynchus
- Maximum length
- 60 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Southeast Atlantic: off southern Africa from the Skeleton Coast, Namibia round Cape of Good Hope to Natal, South Africa. Reported from Mozambique (Ref. 5213 ). Apart from the St. Helena, it has not been recorded elsewhere in the Atlantic. Western Pacific: Japan (Ref. 559 ), Chesterfield Islands (Ref. 11897 ), southern Australia and New Zealand (Ref. 4537 ). Eastern Pacific: Chile (Ref. 3975 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
