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Rainbow Runner

Elagatis bipinnulata

Also known as: Blue-striped Runner, Hawaiian Salmon, Ocean Salmon, Prodigal Son, Rainbow Runnerfish, Rainbow Yellowtail, Runner, Salmon, Salmon Runner, Shoemaker, Skip Jack, Small Rainbow Runner, Spanish Jack, Spanish Mackerel, Striped Fish, Tabio, Yellowtail, Yellowtail Rainbow Runnerfish, Yellowtail Runner, Trevally

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2015
LIFE STAGE
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Juvenile
@Traceyc · Home, Australia · October 20121 / 1

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Overview

Juveniles often shelter around floating seaweed and debris. Their upper jaw reaches back to the front edge of the eye, whereas in adults it ends well short of it.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Fins & Tail
yellow tail
Behaviour
schoolingsolitary

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03

Habitat & where to find it

Where the juvenile stage lives, and where its photos were taken.

  • Range · Circumtropical
  • Country only · 1
RANGE
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Juvenile photos 1

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Discussion

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderCarangiformes
    5. familyCarangidae
    6. genusElagatis
    7. speciesElagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

    SourcesWoRMSFishBase

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