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Megalopidae
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Description
MEGALOPIDAE
Megalops cyprinoides (Broussonet 1782)
Red Sea: (Whitehead 1984).
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: ¯
Red Sea main basin: ¯
General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Mariana Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago and Marquesas Islands.
Notes
Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Elopiformes
- Family
- Megalopidae
- Taxon rank
- family
References
- Whitehead, P. J. P. (1984) Megalopidae. Tarpons. In: Fischer, W. & Bianchi, G. (Eds.), FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes: Western Indian Ocean. Vol. 3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, pp. 3.