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Bramidae
dagger pomfret
Taractes rubescens
Bramid Fish beneath African Waters
- Brown
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Brown
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Largedagger pomfret is a marine fish from Pacific and Atlantic. It inhabits deep water. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 89 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Bramidae
- Genus
- Taractes
- Maximum length
- 89 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Pacific and Atlantic: widely distributed in tropical waters (Ref. 559 ). Eastern Central Pacific: Costa Rica to Peru. Eastern Atlantic: off west Africa. Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad. Not known from the Indian Ocean (Ref. 4936 ). Recently reported in Aden Gulf, Arabian Sea (Ref. 85285 ). Highly migratory species.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
