Main identification features
- lines on back: ~12 oblique
Kawakawa
Two small keels on tail base separated by a third, large keel; no adipose eyelids; jaw teeth slender, conical; corselet of large, thickened scales on front body, with body scaleless behind corselet; top of tongue with cartilaginous crests; pectorals 25-29 rays; ~9 dorsal finlets and ~7 anal finlets; small gap between 2 dorsal fins; first gill arch with 29-33 rakers.
Bluey above, silvery below; a cluster of black spots on belly above pelvic fin; ~12 oblique dark lines on upper back behind corselet.
Size: 110 cm; at least 13.2 kg.
Habitat: surface pelagic, coastal.
Depth: 0-50 m.
Indo-Pacific; vagrants in the Revillagigedos and southern Baja.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 50 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: zooplankton; octopus/squid/cuttlefish; bony fishes; Pelagic crustacea.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=25; Southern limit=19; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-111; Latitudinal range=6; Longitudinal range=4.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Pelagic.
Global Endemism: All Pacific (West + Central + East); Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Water column.
Inshore Offshore: Offshore; Offshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 110 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Mid Water; Near Surface; Surface; Water column only;
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