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Species Name:    Centropomus pectinatus
Common Name:                 (Tarpon Snook)

 

I.  TAXONOMY

Kingdom Phylum/Division: Class: Order: Family: Genus:
Animalia Chordata Osteichthyes Perciformes Centropomidae Centropomus


The Tarpon Snook, Centropomus pectinatus.  Illustration by Diana Rome Peebles 1998.  Courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Division of Marine Fisheries.

Species Name:

Centropomus pectinatus Poey, 1860


Common Name:
Tarpon Snook