Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus 1758
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Coryphaenidae
- genus
- Coryphaena
- species
- Coryphaena hippurus
description
Dolphinfish or Dorado. To 210 cm (82.7 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) and as far north as southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Grays Harbor, Washington to Chile, including Islas Galápagos, and Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: surface to 262 m (859 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Perle et al. 2020).
Name
- Homonyms
- Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus 1758