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| SCIENTIFIC
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| KINGDOM: |
Animalia |
| PHYLUM: |
Chordata |
| CLASS: |
Osteichthyes |
| ORDER: |
Perciformes |
| FAMILY: |
Carangidae |
| GENUS
SPECIES: |
Selene vomer |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Bright silver body is noticeably laterally compressed.
Forehead is extremely blunt. Single dorsal and anal
fin exhibit elongated, trailing fore parts. Caudal
peduncle is truncated and narrow. Deeply centrally
cleft (lunate) caudal fin. |
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| SIZE: |
15.2-25.4 cm (6-10 in) avg; 48.3 cm (19.0 in) max
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| WEIGHT: |
2.1 kg (4.6 lbs) max |
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| DIET: |
Small
crabs, shrimp, fishes, and worms |
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| RANGE: |
Western Atlantic: Maine, Bermuda, and Florida to
Gulf of Mexico and Uruguay |
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| HABITAT: |
1-53 meters in tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate
marine coastal and estuarine waters |
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| POPULATION: |
GLOBAL |
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| STATUS: |
IUCN |
Not listed |
| CITES |
Not listed |
| USFWS |
Not
listed |
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| Bond,
Carl E. Biology of Fishes - Second Edition.
Saunders College Publishing, 1996. |
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Humann, Paul. Reef Fish Identification - Florida,
Caribbean, Bahamas. New World Publications,
Inc., 1992. |
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www.fishbase.org
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