Tarpon
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- For other uses, see Tarpon (disambiguation).
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The tarpons (Spanish: sábalos) are large coastal fish prized by anglers. There are two species in a single genus Megalops in the family Megalopidae<ref name="fish>"Megalopidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 05 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.</ref>, one native to the Atlantic, and the other to the Indo-Pacific oceans. Both are large silvery fishes.
The genus name derives from the Greek adjective megalo meaning 'large', and the noun opsi, meaning 'face'.
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- Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus, a famous sport fish.
- Indo-Pacific tarpon, Megalops cyprinoides, is a lesser-known and smaller fish.
The Tarpon is a game fish that resembles a herrin.18:38, 20 November 2006 (UTC)67.76.107.86mIt lives in the Atlantic Ocean. It grows up to 8 feet in length and sometimes weighs 200 pounds.
