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Snooks
Centropomus
Centropomus Lacépède, 1802, is a genus of predominantly marine fish in family Centropomidae of order Perciformes. The type species is Centropomus undecimalis, the common snook. Commonly known as snooks or róbalos, the Centropomus species are native to tropical and subtropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 13 known species
Common Snook
speciesCentropomus undecimalis
Smallscale Fat Snook
speciesCentropomus parallelus
Pacific Black Snook
speciesCentropomus nigrescens
Yellowfin Snook
speciesCentropomus robalito
Swordspine Snook
speciesCentropomus ensiferus
Blackfin Snook
speciesCentropomus medius
White Snook
speciesCentropomus viridis
Tarpon Snook
speciesCentropomus pectinatus
Mexican Snook
speciesCentropomus poeyi
Armed Snook
speciesCentropomus armatus
Largescale Fat Snook
speciesCentropomus mexicanus
Humpback Snook
speciesCentropomus unionensis
Ira's Snook
speciesCentropomus irae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49439.