Atlantic tripletail
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The Atlantic tripletail, also known as the black grunt, black perch, buoy fish, buoyfish, brown triple tail, brown tripletail, conchy leaf, dusky triple-tail, dusky tripletail, flasher, sleepfish, tri
Tripletail Lobotes surinamensis
Lobotes surinamensis Malta
Lobotes surinamensis, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Lobotes
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Lobotes is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Lobotidae known as the tripletails. These fishes are found in subtropical and tropical waters in all oceans.
Atlantic tripletail
…and naturalist Marcus Elieser Bloch, with its type locality given as the Caribbean Sea off Suriname. In 1830 Georges Cuvier proposed the new genus Lobotes with Holocentrus surinamensis as its type species by monotypy. Some authorities treat Lobotes as a monospecific genus with the Pacific tripletail (L…
Lobotes surinamensis