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Megalops atlanticus Atlantic Tarpon

Megalops atlanticusis commonly referred to as Atlantic Tarpon. Difficulty in the aquarium: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
4415 
AphiaID:
126430 
Scientific:
Megalops atlanticus 
German:
Atlantischer Tarpun 
English:
Atlantic Tarpon 
Category:
Other Fishes 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopteri (Class) > Elopiformes (Order) > Megalopidae (Family) > Megalops (Genus) > atlanticus (Species) 
Initial determination:
Valenciennes, 1847 
Occurrence:
El Salvador, Barbados, Suriname, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Benin, Gambia, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Azores, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Canada , Columbia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, European Coasts, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Madeira, Martinique, Mexico (East Pacific), Montserrat, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Spain, The Bahamas, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Netherlands Antilles, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S. 
Sea depth:
0 - 40 Meter 
Size:
51.18" - 98.43" (130cm - 250cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 84.2 °F (°C - 29°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Coralfish of all kind, Fish (little fishes), Predatory 
Difficulty:
suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Vulnerable (VU) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-09-12 19:20:00 

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Megalops atlanticus

Tarpons feed almost exclusively on schooling fish and occasionally crabs. Tarpons have been recorded at up to 2.5 metres in length and weighing up to 161 kilograms. Atlantic Tarpons are also known as the silver king.

Synonymised names
Megalops atlantica Valenciennes, 1847 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Megalops elongatus Girard, 1859 · unaccepted
Megalops thrissoides Bloch & Schneider, 1873 · unaccepted
Tarpon atlanticus (Valenciennes, 1847) · unaccepted

Scientific paper

  1. High resolution profiles of elements in Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) scales obtained via cross-sectioning and laser ablation ICP-MS: a literature survey and novel approach for scale analyses, Seeley, Matthew; Miller, Nathaniel; Walther, Benjamin , 2015
  2. Diet of age-0 tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) in anthropogenically-modified and natural nursery habitats along the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Zachary R. Jud; Craig A. Layman; Jonathan M. Shenker, 2011
  3. Body size and the air-breathing organ of the Atlantic tarpon Megalops atlanticus, Roger S. Seymour; Nicholas C. Wegner; Jeffrey B. Graham, 2008
  4. Development of 15 polymorphic microsatellite markers in the Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) for capture–recapture studies, SEIFU SEYOUM; MICHAEL D. TRINGALI; MARYANNE HIGHAM, 2008
  5. Molecular genetic variation in tarpon (Megalops atlanticusValenciennes) in the northern Atlantic Ocean, A. L. McMillen-Jackson; T. M. Bert; H. Cruz-Lopez; S. Seyoum; T. Orsoy; R. E. Crabtree, 2005
  6. Neotropical Monogenoidea. 45. Revision of Diplectanocotyla Yamaguti, 1953 (Diplectanidae) with Redescription of Diplectanocotyla megalopis Rakotofiringa and Oliver, 1987 on Atlantic Tarpon, Megalops atlanticus Cuvier and Valenciennes, from Nicaragua and Mexico, Mendoza-Franco, Edgar F.; Kritsky, Delane C.; Vidal-Martínez, Victor M.; Scholz, Tomáš; Aguirre-Macedo, MaLeopoldina , 2004
  7. Studies in conservation genetics of tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) — V. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci, Ivonne R. Blandon; Francisco J. Garcia De León; Rocky Ward; Ronald A. Van Den Bussche; David S. Needleman, 2003
  8. Prey Capture in Actinopterygian Fishes: A Review of Suction Feeding Motor Patterns with New Evidence from an Elopomorph Fish, Megalops atlanticus, Grubich, J. R., 2001
  9. Prey Capture in Actinopterygian Fishes: A Review of Suction Feeding Motor Patterns with New Evidence from an Elopomorph Fish, Megalops atlanticus, Justin R. Grubich, 2001
  10. Prey Capture in Actinopterygian Fishes: A Review of Suction Feeding Motor Patterns with New Evidence from an Elopomorph Fish, Megalops atlanticus1, Grubich, Justin R., 2001
  11. Air Breathing and Gill Ventilation Frequencies in Juvenile Tarpon, Megalops atlanticus: Responses to Changes in Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, Hydrogen Sulfide, and PH, Stephen P. Geiger; Joseph J. Torres; Roy E. Crabtree, 2000
  12. Age and growth of tarpon,Megalops atlanticus, larvae in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, with notes on relative abundance and probable spawning areas, Roy E. Crabtree; Edward C. Cyr; Renée E. Bishop; Laura M Falkenstein; John M. Dean, 1992
  13. A Larval Tarpon, Megalops atlanticus, from Pensacola, Florida, Marlin E. Tagatz, 1973
  14. Bivesicula tarponis, a New Trematode in the Tarpon, Megalops atlanticus (Cuv. & Val.), from the West Coast of Florida, Franklin Sogandares-Bernal and Robert F. Hutton, 1959

External links

  1. Homepage Wolfram Sander, Reefcolors (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, 1847 (Elopiformes, Megalopidae): new records for the state of São Paulo, with comments on its occurrence in the southeastern coast of Brazil, Southwest Atlantic (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. New distribution record of Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, 1847 (Elopiformes, Megalopidae) in El Salvador, Eastern Pacific Ocean (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 12.09.2022.

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June 2 TA1 pair Tarpon and Horseeye Jack Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus), 2006

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