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Pompano
Trachinotus ovatus
Trachinotus ovatus, the pompano which is also known as the derbio or silverfish, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Trachinotidae. It has large, strong fins. It is common in the Mediterranean Sea, and in the Atlantic Ocean from the British Isles and Scandinavia, where it is a vagrant, to the Gulf of Guinea and Angola.
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Description
Trachinotus ovatus has an elongated body which is strongly compressed laterally. The background colour of the body is silver with a greenish back. It has a caudal fin which is obviously split or forked and which has black margins and a white spot on the upper half of the fin. The dorsal and anal fins are marked with black spots. Along the centre line of the flanks there are three to five black spots. This species can grow to 70 centimetres (2.3 ft) long, although it normally attains no more than 35 centimetres (14 in), and it can grow a weight of as much as 2.8 kilograms (6.2 lb).
Range & habitat
Trachinotus ovatus occurs in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from the Bay of Biscay and in British and Scandinavian waters where it is a rare vagrant south to Angola. Its range includes the Mediterranean Sea from the coastal waters of Spain, the Ligurian Sea, the southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea and the Levantine Sea off Egypt. It is apparently absent from the northern Adriatic Sea. Its range includes Macaronesia and mid-Atlantic islands such as St Helena and Ascension Island.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
At the table
Trachinotus ovatus is a minor commercial quarry for fisheries and is used in aquaculture. It is also a popular exhibit in public aquaria.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Human uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51401.