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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Lates niloticus (Linnaeus 1758),
Nile Perch. Africa... originally restricted to the "Ethiopian
Range", but introduced elsewhere. To 200 cm. and 200 kg...
Here at the Denver Aquarium.
http://fishbase.org/Summary/species
Summary.php?ID=347&genusname=
Lates&speciesname=niloticus |
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
Balon, E.K. 1975. A golden Lates mariae, an endemic perch of Lake
Tanganyika. TFH 12/75.
