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Family Centropomidae: Three genera, 22 species. Fresh, Brackish Marine
waters of Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Ocean coasts. Perch like appearances,
concave snouts.
| Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch 1792), the Common
Snook. Tropical West Atlantic; North Carolina, Texas, to Rio de Janiero,
Brazil. Lives in coastal waters, going into freshwater. To four foot eight
inches maximum length. This beauty in a public aquarium in Florida. |
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| Lates calcarifer (Bloch 1790), the Barramundi, Silver
"Datnoides".
Indo-West Pacific; eastern coast of Arabian Peninsula to China, Southern
Japan, New Guinea, Northern Australia. Brackish water as young, switching
to all fresh at about a foot in length/time. To two meters long and sixty kg.
Important food and game fish. Diadromous; living in freshwater, returning
to estuaries to spawn. This five foot one in Phuket's Public Aquarium.
Cute, good looking as brackish 3-5 inch aquarium specimens, but grow
quickly. |
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
Balon, E.K. 1975. A golden Lates mariae, an endemic perch of Lake Tanganyika.
TFH 12/75.
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