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Pomatomidae
snapper
Pomatomus saltatrix
Vulnerable Fish from the Mediterranean Sea
- Cross-climate
- Subtropical
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Southern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Cross-climate
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Fusiform
Largesnapper is a marine fish from Circumglobal. It inhabits marine waters. The largest recorded length is 130 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Pomatomidae
- Genus
- Pomatomus
- Maximum length
- 130 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Circumglobal: In tropical to subtropical waters; except the eastern Pacific (Ref. 33390 ). Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to South Africa, including the Mediterranean and Black Sea, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. Western Atlantic: Canada and Bermuda to Argentina (Ref. 7251 ). Indian Ocean: along the coast of East Africa, Madagascar, southern Oman, southwest India, the Malay Peninsula, and Western Australia (Ref. 11441 ). Southwest Pacific: Australia except the Northern Territory, and New Zealand (Ref. 11441 ). Absent from eastern Pacific and northwest Pacific. Barely entering the Western Central Pacific region. Records from the Northern Territory, Australia and from Indonesia appear to be erroneous (Ref. 9860 ). Occurrence in Taiwan (Ref. 5193 ) and Hawaii (Ref. 4517 ) need verification.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status