It inhabits shallow coastal and island waters in tropical seas and is admired by anglers for its speed and strength.
The ladyfish is slender and pikelike in form and covered with fine silver scales; there are grooves into which the dorsal and anal fins can be depressed.
any of certain marine fish of the family Megalopidae (orderElopiformes), related to the bonefish and the ladyfish and identified by the elongated last dorsal fin ray and the bony throat plate between the sides of the protruding lower jaw.
IWR: Taxa: Elopiformes: Megalopidae - tarpons: Elops affinis Regan - tenpounder or machete / machete - text - photograph - In: TNHC Fishes of North America - Dean Hendrickson;...
munda Gill, 1863 OSTEICHTHYES ORDEN ELOPIFORMES Familia Elopidae 29.
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The springer will often patrol the perimeter od a shoal of food fish, making periodic rushes into it to snatch prey.
This species forms part of the Elopiformes, one of the more primitive groups of modern-day bony fishes.
A feature common to all these herring-like families, and well demonstrated in the springer is the direct connection between the oesophagus and the air bladder.
