tripletail

Lobotes surinamensis

Juveniles drift sideways mimicking floating leaves

Cross-climate
Subtropical
Tropical
Transcontinental
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
East Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America
Southeast Asia
Deep-bodied
Compressed cross-section
Large
Tropical fish

tripletail is a marine fish found around Tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 110 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Surgeonfishes and Allies
Family: Lobotidae
Genus: Lobotes
Maximum length: 110 cm
Body shape: deep_bodied
Distribution: Tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans. Western Atlantic: New England and Bermuda southward to Argentina (Ref. 114270 ); and Falkland Islands (Ref. 114522 ). Eastern Atlantic: presumably along the coast from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Gulf of Guinea, including Madeira, although reliable records still lacking from Angola, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde Islands; and Mediterranean (Ref. 114272 ). Indo-Pacific: East Africa through all countries of Southeast Asia north to Taiwan Province of China and southern Japan, northern Australia to southern Queensland, New Guinea to New Britain, and south to Fiji. Reported as rare visitors in Ponape, Hawaii, and Tahiti (Ref. 47694 ). Records from eastern central to southeastern Pacific need further confirmation and may refer to Lobotes pac
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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