Galapagos Species Database
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Alectis ciliaris
pámpano africano, African pompano
Silvery, often with bluish or greenish tints: scales not obvious. Compressed body, deeply forked tail. Diamond-shaped juveniles trail long thread-like filaments from dorsal and anal fins: mature, filaments usually become progr Up to 1.25m
Habitat: Young fish are pelagic, adults usually solitary, near the bottom to depths of at least 60m.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Carangiformes
Family
Carangidae
Genus
Alectis
Species
ciliaris
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Alectis breviventralis Wakiya, 1924, Alectis crinitus (Mitchill, 1826), Alectis indica (Cuvier, 1833), Alectis temmincki Wakiya, 1924, Blepharichthys crinitus (Mitchill, 1826), Blepharis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787), Blepharis crinitus (Mitchill, 1826), Blepharis fasciatus Rüppell, 1830, Blepharis indicus Cuvier, 1833, Blepharis major Cuvier, 1833, Blepharis sutor Cuvier, 1833, , Carangoides ajax Snyder, 1904, Gallus virescens Lacepède, 1802, Hynnis cubensis Poey, 1860, Hynnis hopkinsi Jordan & Starks, 1895, Scyris analis Poey, 1868, Zeus ciliaris Bloch, 1787, Zeus crinitus Mitchill, 1826, Zeus gallus Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym), fide Appeltans et al. (2010)
Origin: Native
Distribution: Indo-Pacific; in the eastern Pacific from the region of Mazatlan, Mexico to Panama and Ecuador in Galápagos. Circumtropical, Southern Baja to Ecuador, Revillegados, Galápagos, Cocos and Malpello.
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- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Alectis ciliaris", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7732. Accessed 13 September 2025.