milkfish (Chanos chanos)

Query: Chanidae

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Subject:	milkfish (Chanos chanos)
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milkfish (Chanos chanos)

Chanos salmoneus = Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775)
Date 1889
Source Fauna of British India (Fishes, Volumes 1 and 2) via www.archive.org
Author Sir Francis Day
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chanos_chanos_Day.png

The milkfish (Chanos chanos) is the sole living species in the family Chanidae. Chanos chanos occurs in the Indian Ocean and across the Pacific Ocean, from South Africa to Hawaii and the Marquesas, from California to the Galapagos, north to Japan, south to Australia. Milkfishes commonly live in tropical offshore marine waters around islands and along continental shelves.

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