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species

African Threadfish
Alectis alexandrina (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Chordata - chordates » class Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes » order Perciformes - perch-likes » family Carangidae - jacks, amberjacks, pompanos » genus Alectis

Scientific synonyms

Alectis alexandrinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Blepharis alexandrinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Caranx alexandrinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Caranx goreensis (Cuvier, 1833)
Gallichthys aegyptiacus Cuvier, 1833
Gallus alexandrinus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817
Hynnis goreensis Cuvier, 1833
Scyris alexandrina (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Scyris alexandrinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Selene goreensis (Cuvier, 1833)

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Other names

= Alexandria Pompano
= Pomp
= Pompano

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IUCN category:	Least Concern

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Author: Pavel Zuber

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Links and literature

FishBase [1888]

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase [http://www.fishbase.org]

AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [species/572]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2009): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Alectis alexandrina (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)]
Data retrieved on: 17 January 2010

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018-1 [198772]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Alectis alexandrina (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1817)]
Data retrieved on: 16 August 2018

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