Description: Body elongated, dark olive green or blue above, white below. Two narrow light blue bands on the sides with a yellowish band between them. Fins olive or yellowish. A dorsal and anal finlet posterior to the forked tail. Size up to 1.8 m.
Habitat: Found in oceanic and coastal waters, down to 150 m, but generally near the surface over reefs or sometimes far from the coasts. May form large schools (E. bipinnulata). Feeds on invertebrates and small fishes
Distribution: Uncommon to rare Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean.
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Superclass Pisces Class Osteichthyes Family Carangidae Genus Elagatis Species Elagatis bipinnulata
Humann, P., 1989. Reef Fish Identification - Florida Caribbean Bahamas, (ed. N. Deloach). New World Publications, Inc., Paramount Miller Graphics, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida.
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Elagatisbipinnulata (species group: Fishes of the NE Atlantic and the Mediterranean)
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