Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes

Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, Zootaxa 3803 (1), pp. 1-120 : 22

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1
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scientific name	Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes
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Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes View in CoL in Cuv. & Val. 1847 — Tarpon

Justification: ZMUC P.17908-17911 (4, 107–172 mm SL), Frederiksted, Jan. 1906; one specimen caught and released by us at Salt River ; on-line photographs available ( Pittman et al., 2008) .

Distribution: WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA), EA.

Remarks: Beatty (1944:178) stated "large specimens [of Tarpon atlanticus ] enter the slightly brackish waters of Fairplain Stream."

ALBULIDAE —bonefishes (1 species)