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Coryphaena hippurus (Mahi-mahi; Mahimahi; Mahi mahi; Dorado; Dolphinfish; Dolphin fish; Dolphin; Common dolphinfish; Common dolphin fish; Common dolphin; Common dolphifish; Green dolphin)

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Infraspecies

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [3]  4 years
Migration [4]  Oceanodromous
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic, Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  48.502 lbs (22.00 kg)
Female Maturity [3]  6 months 17 days
Male Maturity [2]  6 months 17 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Mascarenes Mauritius, France Afrotropic Oceanic Islands    

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3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
4Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
5Olson, Robert J., and Felipe Galvan-Magana. "Food habits and consumption rates of common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the eastern Pacific Ocean." Fishery Bulletin 100.2 (2002): 279+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
6Feeding ecology and niche segregation in oceanic top predators off eastern Australia, Jock W. Young, Matt J. Lansdell, Robert A. Campbell, Scott P. Cooper, Francis Juanes, Michaela A. Guest, Mar Biol (2010) 157:2347–2368
7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
8DIET AND FEEDING OF DOLPHIN (CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS) IN WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN WATERS, Enric Massutí, Salud Deudero, Pilar Sánchez and Beatriz Morales-Nin, BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 63(2): 329–341, 1998
9Diet composition and food habits of demersal and pelagic marine fishes from Terengganu waters, east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Z. Bachok, M.I. Mansor and R.M. Noordin, NAGA, WorldFish Center Quarterly Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 Jul-Dec 2004, p. 41-47
10COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND DIETS OF FISHES ASSOCIATED WITH PELAGIC SARGASSUM AND OPEN-WATER HABITATS OFF NORTH CAROLINA, Tara L. Casazza, Thesis, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2008
11Santos RA, Haimovici M. 2000. The Argentine short-finned squid Illex argentinus in the food webs of southern Brazil. Sarsia 85:49-60
12CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
13Diet of Wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri, from the Northcentral Gulf of Mexico, JAMES S. FRANKS, ERIC R. HOFFMAYER, JAMES R. BALLARD, NIKOLA M. GARBER, and AMBER F. GARBER, Proceedings of the 60th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute November 5 - 9, 2007 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, p. 353-362
14Seasonal and inter-annual variation in the feeding ecology of a tropical oceanic seabird, the red-tailed tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda, M. Le Corre, Y. Cherel, F. Lagarde, H. Lormée, P. Jouventin, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 255: 289–301, 2003
15Pseudorca crassidens, Pam J. Stacey, Stephen Leatherwood, and Robin W. Baird, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 456, pp. 1-6 (1994)
16Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)
17Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
18Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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