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Lookdowns and Moonfishes
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Lookdowns and Moonfishes

Selene

Selene is a genus of carangids, commonly known as lookdowns and moonfishes, native to the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Lookdown

speciesSelene vomer

Atlantic Moonfish

speciesSelene setapinnis

Hairfin Lookdown

speciesSelene brevoortii

African Moonfish

speciesSelene dorsalis

Peruvian Moonfish

speciesSelene peruviana

Brown's Caribbean Moonfish

speciesSelene brownii

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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 49599.