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Rachycentridae
cobia
Rachycentron canadum
Rachycentrid Fish of the South African Coast
cobia is a fish from Worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters, but absent. Records give a maximum length of 200 cm. Its body is an elongated body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Rachycentridae
- Genus
- Rachycentron
- Maximum length
- 200 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters, but absent in the eastern Pacific (Ref. 9739 , 33390 ) and the Pacific Plate, except marginally (Ref. 10948 ). Western Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ) to Bermuda and Massachusetts, USA to Argentina (Ref. 7251 ), including the Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 9626 ) and entire Caribbean (Ref. 26938 ). Eastern Atlantic: Morocco to South Africa. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Ref. 2871 , 5213 , 6644 , 30573 ) and Hokkaido, Japan to Australia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

