Tarpon
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Tarpon are fish of the genus Megalops. They are the only extant members of the family Megalopidae. Of the two species, one is native to the Atlantic, and the other to the Indo-Pacific Oceans.
Atlantic tarpon
Tarpon swimming
A speared tarpon leaps from the water in an 1894 illustration by Hermann Simon.
Indo-Pacific tarpon
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The Indo-Pacific tarpon, also known as the oxeye herring or simply herring due to its superficial resemblance to the true herrings, of which it is not a member, is the smaller of the two species of ta
Tarpon
…Atlantic, and the other (M. cyprinoides) to the Indo-Pacific Oceans. The two species of tarpon are M. atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon) and M. cyprinoides (Indo-Pacific tarpon): M. atlanticus is found on the western Atlantic coast from Virginia to Brazil, throughout the Caribbean and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Tarpon…
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Megalops cundinga Achilles 159
Megalops Cyprinoides