Orcynopsis unicolor (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 213

Orcynopsis unicolor (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 144.3 cm TL; 130 FL

Water type: marine, brackish

Environment: pelagic-neritic

Depth range:? m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2011)

Source: observation

Distribution and remarks: East Atlantic: known from Oslo, Norway south to Dakar, Senegal but the range is centred in the southern Mediterranean Sea. Not known from Madeira, the Canary Islands or Cape Verde. Many observations (FISH) for Gabon.