MEGALOPIDAE

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, Zootaxa 4509 (1), pp. 1-215 : 19

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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.

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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Elopiformes
Family	Megalopidae
Genus	Megalops

Specimens