Tripletail

Lobotes is a genus of perciform fishes known as the tripletails native to subtropical and tropical waters in all oceans. This is the sole genus in the family Lobotidae.[1]

Tripletail
Atlantic tripletail, (L. surinamensis)
Scientific classification
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Lobotidae

T. N. Gill, 1861
Genus:
Lobotes

G. Cuvier, 1830
Type species
Holocentrus surinamensis
Bloch, 1790
Synonyms
  • Verrugato Jordan, 1923

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Lobotes pacificus C. H. Gilbert, 1898 (Pacific tripletail)
  • Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790) (Atlantic tripletail)
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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Lobotes in FishBase. December 2013 version.


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