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Alectis ciliaris
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Overview
Main identification features
  • forehead steep, rounded
  • body high, very compressed
  • dorsal fin and a: high front lobes, no rear finlets
  • ll: spiny scales - tail base only
  • juveniles: front dorsal and anal finsrays = filaments
ALECTIS

POMPANOS

Body deep, strongly compressed, elongating with age; head profile steep; straight part of lateral line with scutes (hard spiny scales); scales very small, imbedded in skin, body appears scaleless; front spines of dorsal fin and anal fins elongate in juveniles; all but 1 spine of dorsal fin buried under skin in adult; anal fin with II free spines at front; pelvics moderate sized throughout life; no finlets after 2nd dorsal and anal fins; pectoral long, curved.

A pantropical genus with 3 species; with one circumtropical species in the tropical eastern Pacific.


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