Animalia > Chordata > Elopiformes > Elopidae > Elops > Elops machnata

Elops machnata (Whole sardine; Ten-pounder; Tenpounder; Ten pounder; Tempounder; Springer; Pincushion fish; Ladyfish; Lady fish; Indo-Pacific tarpon; Giant herring; Bony fish; Big-eye herring; Big-eye giant herring; Banana fish; Australian giant herring)

Synonyms: Argentina machnata; Elops capensis; Elops indicus; Elops purpurascens
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Wikipedia Abstract

The tenpounder, Elops machnata, is a species of fish in the family Elopidae in the order Elopiformes (tarpons and tenpounders). This species is found in coastal regions of the Indian Ocean.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Prey / Diet

Gilchristella aestuaria (Gilchrist's round herring)[2]
Mesopodopsis slabberi[2]
Monodactylus falciformis (Cape moonfish)[2]
Palaemon pacificus (Pacific grass shrimp)[2]
Rhopalophthalmus terranatalis[2]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, 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
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0