Lobotes

Also known as tripletail

Lobotes is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Lobotidae known as the tripletails. These fishes are found in subtropical and tropical waters in all oceans.

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KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassTeleostei
OrderPerciformes
FamilyLobotidae

Habitatmarine, brackish

Observations recorded3,829

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 46
With media: 1
Family: Lobotidae
Collections: CICIMAR-IPN, KU, UF, ZMO, USNM, LACM
Recorded in: Mexico, Panama, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, India, China

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Lobotidae
Image: Lobotes surinamensis.jpg

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Commons category: Lobotes
taxon name: Lobotes
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Lobotes

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Lobotes is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Lobotidae known as the tripletails. These fishes are found in subtropical and tropical waters in all oceans.

==Taxonomy== Lobotes was first proposed as a genus in 1830 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with Holocentrus surinamensis, originally described by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1790 from Suriname, as its type species. Some authorities treat Lobotes as a monospecific genus with L. pacifica being regarded as a synonym of a single pantropical L. surinamensis. Lobotes is one of two genera in the family Lobotidae which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies in the order Spariformes.

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