The species names / identity need verification - original names from plate are included here. The original plates showed the fishes facing right and have been flipped here. Chanos salmoneus
Date 1878
Source Francis Day (1878) The Fishes of India. Volume 2.
Author C. Achilles
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chanos_salmoneus_Achilles_166.jpg
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. |
