Tripletail
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| Tripletails | |
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| Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Lobotidae |
| Genus: | Lobotes Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830 |
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Tripletails are perciform fishes in the genus Lobotes, the only genus in the family Lobotidae.
[edit] Species
- Pacific tripletail, Lobotes pacificus Gilbert, 1898.
- Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790).
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Lobotidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
